Milk Consumption
New Zealanders arc using so much milk that butter and cheese exports are being affected and there is less milk for pigs and consequently less pork is available. These facts were mentioned by the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Cullen), when he addressed the Dominion dairy conference. Consumption of milk' in New Zealand before the war, said the minister, was 220 pints a head a year. To-day it was 320 pints a year. Milk consumption was equivalent to 7980 tons of butter beforp the war and 13.000 tons to-day-
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7101, 31 August 1949, Page 3
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90Milk Consumption Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7101, 31 August 1949, Page 3
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