STORING BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 10

STORING BUTTER

Ration In Britain May Be Reduced STOPPAGE OF DANISH SUPPLIES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, May 6. The Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, said that the public must be prepared for an early reduction ip the butter ration to four ounces a week in view of the stoppage of Danish supplies. Lord Woolton added that if tlie butter ration was reduced to its former level he had no doubt that the Government could obtain adequate supplies from the Empire to make Britain safe for at least the remainder of the year.

Though tlie cold-storage facilities are at present adequate new stores are being built in eight different parts of the country in order to meet all eventualities. The important thing to be considered, said the Minister, was not how much of any particular article there was in England at the moment, but how much there would be in the event of all sorts of disadvantageous circumstances arising in the future. Lord Woolton said he would also reduce the sugar allowance unless he was quite certain that supplies wouid be adequate later in the year.. It will be recalled that the original butter ration was doubled shortly after its introduction.

DOMINION’S BUTTER AND CHEESE

Need For High Quality (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, May 7. The need for tlie utmost care being taken by dairy factory managers in the manufacture of butter and cheese was emphasized by Professor W. Riddet, speaking to the annual conference of managers and first assistants assembled at the Dairy Research Institute. He was referring to the effect of hostilities on the supply or dairy produce to Great Britain by the shutting-off of Scandinavian imports or 200,000 tons of butter. Britain would be asking New Zealand to supply some of that loss, he said, and it would be definitely to the Dominion’s advantage to supply an article of superior quality, because one could not tell what the result .would be if substitutes got a footing on the British market. Margarine today in some cases could hardly be distinguished from butter, and the result might very well be that if it got into everyday use it would be difficult to convince people that it would be better to have butter. r . There was also the need for greater care in manufacture because of the conditions to which the produce was likely to be subjected by transport in wartime, and New Zealand butter and cheese must still be a good article when it reached the consumer.