BUTTER RATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1943, Page 2

BUTTER RATION

THE MARGARINE ANGLE

STATEMENT BY FOOD CONTROLLER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

HAWERA, November 5

In appealing to the farming industry for full co-operation in implementing the butter ration, Mr J. E. Thomas, Food Controller, speaking at a luncheon at Patea, said that if Britain did not receive the tonnage of butter she required it was a reasonable deduction to anticipate that Britain might find .it impracticable to implement her machinery for her rationing of less than two ounces a week and thus be forced to take butter off the market for civilian consumption. Such a step would be fraught with danger to the New Zealand producer, for if the whole of the consumers of the United Kingdom were forced on to margarine for the duration it was quite possible that difficulties might be encountered in recapturing the whole of the share of the English market that New Zealand enjoyed before the war. It was, therefore, in the producers’ own interests, apart altogether from the need for feeding England, that the maximum ration of two ounces a head a week should be maintained in the United Kingdom.