MILK FAMINE FEARED
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Auckland Dairymen Dissatisfied with Prices MAY STOP SUPPLIES
(By Telegraph-
> AUCKLAND, L&at Night. Dissatisfaction on tho part of dairymen with the prices flxed for their product by the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Couneil threatens to. come to a head this week and there. 'ia a grave risk that something in -the nature of a milk famine in the city may develop at the week-end. Dairymen producing rwiiy for the town supply have frequently made requests for increased prices. It is gathered that they are now prepared to deliver an ultimatum to the couneil. Sev> eral preliminary meetings have been held in the milk-producing districts and arrangements have been made to hold a mass meetihg of dairymen on Friday afternoon. When the Milk Couneil meets on Friday morning it will receive a formal request from the dairymen7! organieation for an increaie in prices and its decision in this reepeet will be communicated to the meeting on Friday • afternoon. Those closely in touoh with the porition stated that if an assurance of increased, prices is not forthooming the dairymen will automatically decide to stop the town supplies and to eend their •milk to dairy factories for manufacture into cheese and butter. On the present allocation of prices fixed by the Milk Couneil dairymen re'ceive a nominal price of 9Jd per gaUon for their milk. They claim this price ia paid only for a proportion of the milk . whioh they supply and that the balance i is bought at lower rates, reducing the , average price to such an extent that it . is no higher than that which could be 1 obtained for milk supplied to dairy factories .on a butter-fat basis. The possibility of a cessation in the suPP1?; of fresh milk is viewed with some concern in families where there are young children and Plunket nurses stated that with over 1000 babies artificially fed under the direction of tho society a shortage of pure milk would 1 seriously affect their work. __
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 68, 7 April 1937, Page 13
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