MILK SUPPLIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 14

MILK SUPPLIES.

Your reporters have the happy knack jf getting into the byways and giving us interesting facts. For example, recently there appeared an account of how an experienced man acquired a property in the Henderson Valley and established a pedigree farm there, with a view to supplying specially rich milk from a modern establishment. Now, there is a Milk Council composed almost entirely of men who have never, run a farm, nor even milked a cow, nor sold a pint of milk arid probably never bought one, who say this nttrn cannot sell his milk. Who wants to hear humorists or alleged humorists over the radio? This beats any comic opera. The Government is acquiring land for unemployed to produce milk at some future uncertain date; tho Unemployment Board is forcing men on to farms to produce more milk; the Boys' Employment Committee is cajoling boys on to farms for. we may presume, the same purpose. Yet here is milk, pedigrpe milk, richer milk, ready, for use—and the producer is not allowed to sell itprohibited by a council set up by God knows whom, and probably unable to distinguish n Jersey from a Holstein or a Shorthorn from a cross-breed. Before the war I spent a few years in New South Wales, not far from a pedigree Jersey farm. There was milk—real milk! The producers' herd was under strict inspection by the State. He could sell as much as he could produce. I was friendly with him. I grew obese. The doctor ordered me to move. But, like the tippler. I used to go back. It was no use. I had to leave and come back to New Zealand. Here at least there is no such danger. A motherly council prevents milk-tippling. As I wandered through Victoria Park this morning and saw ragged half-fed youngsters I retailed this incident to a' friend and remarked what a pity they did not suffer from over-indulgence in 'milk. T.B.M.