THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1942, Page 6

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

CHANGE BACK TO BUTTER. HIGHER PRICES GIVEN BY BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. An announcement that the United Kingdom Ministry of Food had agreed to meet the costs arising from the change-back ot dairy factory suppliers from cheese to butter manufacture by increasing the purchase prices for creamery butter and cheese by 4s 6d sterling a cwt. for creamery butter and 3s sterling a cwt. for cheese, was made last evening by the Minister of Marketing, .Mr Barclay. These increases bring the United Kingdom f.o.b. sterling purchase prices to 117 s a cwt. for butter and to 73s a cwt. for cheese. Mr Barclay s,tated that the decision to reduce cheese production from 160,000 tons to 90,000 tons per annum had reduced the income from dairy produce, and the New Zealand Government had agreed to compensate suppliers now to be changed back to butter manufacture by payment to them of Hid a lb. butterfat on next season’s supply sent to butter factories. The increases in purchase prices of butter and cheese now notified by the Ministry of Food were given specifically to meet the change-over costs referred to. and they were a prompt recognition by the Ministry of Food of the helpful attitude oi dairy-farmers in again meeting the United Kingdom war time needs in dairy produce production.