AUSTRALIA MAY HAVE TO IMPORT N.Z. BUTTER
SYDNEY, May 31. —A butter expert has warned that owing to Australia’s lag in the output of butter there was a drastic possibility that Australia would have to import butter from New Zealand in a few years. Mr. C. Sheehy, general manager of the Commonw-ealth dairy equalisation committee in Brisbane, speaking at the 43rd. annual conference of the Australian Institute of Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries, said that milk production this year was likely to be no more than before the war.
“With the increasing population increasing local demand,” he added, “the time will come in a few years when we will have to draw upon New Zealand for butter to tide us over lean periods.” The increasing consumption of margarine overseas, particularly in Britain, was becoming a serious threat to the Australian butter export trade. Britain was getting supplies of butter from European countries and within two years would be able to get all the edible fats she needed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 June 1949, Page 6
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