CURTAILMENT OF MILK SUPPLY
AUCKLAND CITY AREA EFFECT OF DRY SPELL. [ Per Press Association.} AUCKLAND, March 21. “We are assured of enough milk for this week, but no one can say what will happen after that if the dry weather continues,” said the secretary of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council in announcing that the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. W. Lee Martin, had given permission for a supplementary supply to be obtained at once from certain farms in the Waiuku district. The milk would be pasteurised before distribution, it was stated. It would be perfectly safe, although the farm dairies were not registered for town supply. He added that all the requirements yhad been met so far and the additional milk would suffice for the rest of the week. The trouble was that the pastures were drying up and the yield was falling everywhere. In four weeks the supply obtained by the four principal Auckland distributing companies had decreased by 4600 gallons below the normal figure of about 24,000 gallons a day.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 8
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