CREAM COLLECTION.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10886, 12 August 1932, Page 3

CREAM COLLECTION.

OVERLAPPING ROUTES. “I think the Matamata County Council will not be able to enforce; the regulations they have framed,” said Mr J. E. Leeson, chairman of directors of the Morrinsville Cooperative Dairy Company, when touching on overlapping cream routes; in the course of his remarks at the annual meeting. “They may be able to get a magistrate’s judgment, but if it goes to fhe Supreme Court I think they will not be able to enforce the regulations.” The question had been raised in the Morrinsville district recently by the resolution of the Tahuna branch of the Farmers’ Union asking the Piako County Council to follow the lead of the Matamata County Council and regulate the operations of cream carters. “As regards our own company,” added Mr Leeson, “I do not think there is a great deal of overlapping. There may be occasional cases. We have eight lorries, each bringing in as much cream as the County Council will allow. I do not think that in this’ part of the county there Is a great deal of unnecessary wear on the roads. There are occasions when cream contractors can work together if left to themselves, andl so can reduce the wear on the road. But it should be left to the carters to make arrangements. lam strongly against any restrictions being placed on the use of cream lorries. "The stand that the Morrinsville Dairy Company takes is this: We would not stop a carter making arrangements with an opposition carter where the arrangement would be beneficial to both and not injurious to the company.

“My opinion is that the advent of the cream collecting cart is the best thing that ever happened to the local bodies,’ added. Mr Leeson. “If we were all to cart our own milk to the factories as we did before home separation, and as cheese factory suppliers still do it would mean in the ease of my own road—-Hangawera road—that 60,0001 b of milk would £0 over the road every day. I think the county councils should appreciate the benefits from cream lorries, although there is a certain amount of *ear on the roads.”

Continuing, Mr Leeson quoted the Wse of suppliers on a hack road. If lorries wont up the road to pick up treajn the county complained, but there was nothing to stop those few suppliers from each carting out his oiilk to a cheese factory—which, meant carting out 18 times as much. “I do not think they should discrimhate between milk and cream,” he milled. “The cheese factory supplier going to be free to cart milk (as hog as lie pays the lorry license), "While the butter factory supplier is going to be restricted.”