MILK BILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 290, 8 December 1933, Page 8

MILK BILL.

deputation to protest.

LOCAL BODIES' ATTITUDE,

Three representatives of the Auckland and Suburban Local Bodies' Association will go to Wellington to-morrow night to protest against the introduction to the House of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Bill. This decision was reached at a hur-riedly-called meeting of the association •this afternoon, in the offices of the Auckland Employers' Association. The deputation will consist of 1.. J. Goldstine, chairman of the association and Mayor of One Tree Hill, T. McNab, Mayor of Mount Eden, and C. McCullough, chairman of the .Mount Roskill Road Board. Mr. Goldstine, who presided, said that the local bodies were concerned only with three points: an adequate supply of milk, good quality of milk, and the gelling at reasonable prices. Their duties ended there. The chairman summed up the feeling of the meeting when he 6aid that delay wotild have to be the plank on which the association stood or fell. The association all along had taken the attitude that it did not know enough either to support or to condemn. "Since we have had no time to form an opinion," he said, "we cannot approve." "Mr, J. Guiniven, of Takapuna, said that delay was the main object. It would not be wise to go to Wellington with the notion of killing the bill. The tiifie' would come when some sort of Governmental control- would be a reality. Mr. A. Coates moved that the association should oppose the bill on, the grounds of principle, that liad had no time to consider the position. It was further decided that there/ should not be written evidence to support the deputation.