FOR MILK SUPPLIERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 109, 12 May 1942, Page 3

FOR MILK SUPPLIERS

INCREASED PAYMENTS SOUGHT (P.A.) Wellington. May 11. Now the Government had granted a war cost allowance to the ordinary dairy farmers it was to be hoped the gross injustice under which farmers who supplied milk to some towns in the Dominion were suffering would be rectified, said the secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr. A. P. O’Shea, to-day. They had been disgracefully treated, hi* said. With prices stabilised at the 1939 level, farmers in some districts. notably Otago, were selling milk at below the cost of production and

at oelow the cost oi production and the consumers were getting an unfair advantage. There was as yet no provision to pass on to the milk suppliers allowances for war costs granted other sections of the community It was interesting to contrast the treatment they had received with that given producers of beer. The Government knew the position and it was high time it took action to rectify the injustice. In some districts milk production follow n supply had become hopelessly uneconomic. As a result small quantities of milk were collected over widespread areas and temporary licences lor town supply had even been granted to some producers whose buildings were not up to the health standard.