THE PRICE OF MILK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 226, 23 September 1932, Page 6

THE PRICE OF MILK.

The recent fixing of the price of milk .t« 3d a quart reveals a movement that J"equ» very careful watching in the interests .<« "WJ producers and consumer?. An attempt to oeu'o made to capture the distribution of the «*. milk supply by certain private interests. i»" first procedure is to capture the bulk ol eui ply. This is done by offering the producer wr a term Id a gallon above the price P«v»w»v paid. Quite naturally, the producer, who bears the heavy end of the burden both in work. 8 "" financial responsibility and whose W>°™ merits a fair return, responds. The next W is to eliminate the small vendors, who . secure custom have cut the price to «a an even as low as 3d a quart. To be quite »£- this has resulted in a tremendous a mo . un ;,l unnecessary overlapping, but the point is w»» if private interests capture the &u PP l y..ff n succeed in eliminating serious competing wjiat is to prevent these interests for prjva gain lowering the price to the producer »do raising it to the consumer; .« ™ is to be a monopoly in tliis daily n«w sity, let it be a municipal monopoly *»«• obtains in Wellington, ministering to >w> needs of the whole community. -jj^y