ABSTRACT
Arrangements for milk distribution were upset by the partial evacuation of London : and in the first few weeks of war more than 9,000 gallons a day were being brought to London and handed over to the manufacturers of milk products because demand for liquid milk had fallen. Just before the war, plans were complete for the establishment of a Milk Products Marketing Board. A milk products scheme, it was urged, would enable manufacturers to seek regulation of imports through the Market Supplies Committee; and the board set up by industry would be able to meet the Milk Marketing Board on level ground. The looked-for result was an improvement in the prices secured for milk products. At present a large quantity of milk which might be consumed liquid is being used for manufacture, and it might seem that the obvious course to take after cutting distribution costs would be to close creameries and import all butter and cheese from abroad.
