NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1943, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

BRITAIN’S REQUIREMENTS. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In an interview yesterday the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Barclay, said that at the National Dairy Conference held in Palmerston North on June 23 he had indicated his willingness, if the conference concurred, to recommend the Government to have the Dairy Supply Control Order 1942 revoked. “However, since the date of that conference,” said; the Minister, “cables received from the British Ministry of Food indicate that at least 115,000 tons of New Zealand butter should be forwarded to Great Britain during the season, and this and other requirements make it necessary to avoid any change over from butter to cheese, though the United Kingdom desires all the cheese New Zealand can supply in addition to butter.” “Having regard to this change in position, and after conferring with the New Zealand Dairy Board, the Government have decided that it would be inadvisable at present to revoke • the Dairy Supply Control Order, 1942. This means that dairy farmers who supplied cream for butter manufacture last season should continue to supply cream for butter manufacture during the present season rather than change-over to the supply of milk for cheese.”