WELLINGTON'S MILK SUPPLY

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16350, 23 October 1918, Page 8

WELLINGTON'S MILK SUPPLY

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAMB.) WELLINGTON, October 22. Negotiations in connexion with the proposed milk scheme for the city were atlvanccd si stage last evening at a conference between milk vendors and the City Council Milk Committee. There lias been some delay over the manner in which supplies should be distributed, and how the present vendors should fare. Last night's meeting decided to approve the schcme under which tho vendors will become members of one company, controlled by a governing director and one manager, representing each of the six blocks into which the city will bo cut up. It is announced that the quantity of milk available for distribution cxcceds the city's requirements. Tho death took place recently in Midleton (Co. Cork) workhouse, of a very remarkable inmate, Kate Condon, who spent a I'ong lifetime of 66 years', from childhood to old age, in that institution. As a little girl of eight years she entered Midleton workhouse. ... in; August, 1852, tho second year of the establishment of tho institution, . and has now ' died at -the' advanced age of 74 ytiars. She was a "pioneer?' inmate of thia workhouse, outside • "the walls of which she never resided" for any time after her admission in > the middle of last centuiy.