Rationing of Milk.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1939, Page 6

Rationing of Milk.

The drought in the Manawatu is becoming more serious, and the question of maintaining the winter milk supply is causing a great deal of worry. Already milk vendots are having difficulty in securing supplies, so that the prospects for the months ahead are not encouraging. According to milk vendors, the position definitely suggests that a rationing system offers the only method by which the limited supplies can be made to meet household requirements. Supplementary fodder generally fed in the winter months is now being used in an endeavour to hold the milk supply, but without moisture the cows are failing to respond. Native Problems. “The drawback for the Union so far as the natives are concerned is the overstocking of their lands, said Mi H. Botha Reid, Master of the Supreme Court at Cape Town, in a summary of the South African native protectorate problem and of some aspects of the native question in the Union itself. Mr Reid was a member of the first Springbok Rugby football team to tour Great Britain, and is married to the youngest daughter of General Botha. “South African natives,” said Mr Reid, “look on their cattle in the same way as we look upon money in the bank, and it is very difficult to get them to realise that the veldt has only a limited carrying capacity and that they should aim at producing quality animals instead of scrubs. The Union Department of Native Affairs is one of the largest and most important departments in the Union, and in its ranks are many officers who are extremely well versed in native affairs and in whom the natives have the utmost confidence.”

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