MILK SHORTAGE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24901, 14 June 1946, Page 6

MILK SHORTAGE

TO SUPPLY CHRISTCHURCH IP.A.) WELLINGTON. June 13. “Because Christchurch is short of milk, starting on Monday next Wellington will -send the Canterbury Dairy Farmers’ Co-operative Milk Supply Company, Ltd., 1000 gallons a day while the shortage in the south lasts,” said Mr J. J. Maher, chairman of the Wellington Dairy Farmers’ Co-operative Association, to-day. Mr Maher, explaining the quantity of milk available in Wellington, said that when the war with Germany ended Welling|;qp dairy farmers naturally thought there would be a general return to normal conditions, with the right to sell cream- Provision w® s therefore made by farmers in July and August to bring more cows into profit. The restrictions on cream, however, were not lifted. Farmers had been left with a large quantity of milk in an uneconomic part of the year. The chairman of the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board (Mr M. E. Lyons) said last evening that he had expected that such an arrangement as this would have to be made, as toilU was in short supply in Christchurch. Hutt Valley farmers had a surplus of milk, and arrangements had been made for the quota for Christchurch tc be placed on the steamer express each night jt ran. M r Lyops emphasised that the Wellington milk was not to replace the milk . which, was sent from Christchurch to other parts cf Canterbury. The chief difficulty was that vendors supplying schools were unable to meet all demands.

Canadians Honoured by King.—The appointment of tfie Minister qf Reconstruction (Mr C. D. Howe) to the Privy Council is announced in the Birthday Honours list, which includes 438 names. The wort qf men who played vital but unspectacular roles in the Canadian war eflfort is generously recognised. Mr Howe, during the war, was the moving force behind the Munitions and Supply Department. Mr Howe and Merchant Navy men are the only civilians included in the list, but another list specially for civilians will be issued on July 1. General A. G. L. McNaughton, who commanded the Canadian forces in Britain during the war. has been created a Companion of Honour.—Ottawa, June IS. z