MILK ZONING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 301, 20 December 1941, Page 9

MILK ZONING

HEATED ARGUMENT

WHANGAREI PROPOSALS

(0.C.) WHANGAREI, Friday. Heated discussions were frequent at a meeting of the Whangarei milk vendors called last night to consider zoning, it took the vendors present two hours to reach finality and this was done after two of the six present had left the meeting. Several proposals were put forward prior to their departure, but deadlocks were reached. The crux of the argument was that the suggested basis of the zoning scheme would adversely affect some of the vendors, while others would benefit.

Mr. R. D. Speer, who was elected to the chair, told vendors that during the afternoon he had received a communication stating that the acute shortage of petrol would necessitate the introduction of a zoning scheme. The scheme gazetted some time ago required readjustment and vendors were asked for proposals in this connection.

A motion proposed and lost at the last meeting was that each vendor prepare a record of his deliveries for the week prior to zoning, and after zoning had been enforced for a month a further record be put forward for comparison. One of the vendors left the meeting at this juncture, saying that he did so as a protest. The motion lapsed for want of a seconder. Two further motions were put to the meeting, but they also lapsed. Remarking that he considered it impossible to come to any agreement, another vendor left the meeting. The chairman was forced to call the meeting to order several times. A motion that zoning be adopted on the present gallonage of vendors was then carried, and another motion that the average daily gallonage be for the week ending December 19, allowing a two-gallon margin, and that every zone be as near as possible to each vendor's depot was also carried.