DAIRY SHIPMENTS
ANOTHER REDUCTION IN AUSTRALIA
ON ACCOUNT OF HOT & DRY WEATHER.
PRODUCTION SERIOUSLY CURTAILED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 11.45 a.tn.) SYDNEY. This Day.
The Australian Dairy Produce Board has decided, in view of the continued hot and dry weather and the serious decrease in production throughout the Commonwealth, that shipments of butter to the United Kingdom shall be reduced from two thousand tons to 1,500 ..ns. commencing in the week ending on January 29. Jhis is the second reduction within ten days. On January 3, the board announced that weekly shipments would be reduced from 2,500 tons to 2,000 tons, commencing in the week ending on January 22.
As a result of the dry spell in New South Wales during the last five months, dairy farmers throughout the Northern Rivers district, will be poorer by £70.000 for December production alone.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 6
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