A BOROUGH'S MILK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 156, 3 July 1936, Page 8

A BOROUGH'S MILK.

MT. ALBERT STANDARD. REPORT TO MILK COUNCIL. "I defy anyone to say that there has ever been ' a conviction for supplying adulterated, or milk not up to standard, in Mount Albert." When this challenge was made by a member of the Mount Albert Boiougli Council 011 Tuesday night,,there was in the room a councillor who had been fined for selling stale milk, ihat at least was the report supplied in reply by the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council this morning. The report gave the names of three suppliers in the borough who had been charged and dealt with for various offences connected with the standard' of milk supplied. "It shows how irresponsible some of these statements are," said Mr. G. W. Hutchison, chairman of the Milk Council. The report, replying to statements that dairymen-vendors were amongst the biggest ratepayers in tlie Mount Albert Borough, and that the borough produced three-quarters of its own milk supply, pointed out that there were nine licensed dairymen in the borough producing in all an average of 284 gallons a day. The consumption of residents was estimated at 1200 gallons a day — and 20 vendors in the district out of 20 were delivering milk that was produced outside the borough. Fifty per cent of milk supplied 'by dairymen-vendors would be from 15 to 18 hours' old.