MILK SHORTAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1941, Page 5

MILK SHORTAGE

IN PROSPECT IN BRITAIN STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF FOOD. CHEESE TO BE RATIONED. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) RUGBY, March 18. Expressing the view that difficulty would be experienced in maintaining milk production at the present level, the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, speaking in the House of. Lords, announced that he was asking milk distributors to reduce domestic orders by approximately one-seventh, commencing in April. Lord Woolton paid a tribute to the efficiency with which the milk distributors had carried out their duties in spite of air raids. "In spite of the conditions and of the bombardment and disturbance of railway transport, the closing down of stations and the breaking up of roads, this country, without interruption and almost without delay, has been supplied every morning with its milk,” he said. The shortage of imported cattle feeding stuffs was likely to become more acute, the Food Minister stated, and there were other difficulties which would tend in the direction of a milk shortage. The Ministry of Food announced the forthcoming rationing of cheese, though the. amount has not yet been fixed. For the first time the Ministry will allocate supplies to a particular class of workers by arranging for a special amount to be available for agricultural and underground mine workers and others who are unable to use canteens.