CITY MILK SUPPLY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19917, 2 May 1930, Page 17

CITY MILK SUPPLY.

I TO 188 EDITOR OV THE FBESS. lir,—May I have a little of your liable space "to reply to a letter by J»hn Parlane, who says that ho «„ ,npt intend to answer my "several" irges. I made one,' charge only, viz.; tMr Parlane made-a statement the ect opposite of the truth when he ■ that the company had already* ted ita intention of building a large tory and was asking the City Couns Milk Supply Committee to assist >y passing regulations compelling all k producers who are "licensed!', to aVthelMnilk to ita factory*fA ret that this statement is not true. £r Parlane says that'our' proposals'' ridiculous .and retrograde. The re- j t presented to the City Council stated I t tho Association had undertaken to ply to the City a whole raw milk tilled-to be drawn from cows free tn disease, distributed to consumers clean, sterilised bottles, double ped.under .conditions approved by City Council. Mir ' Parlane says, h a system is retrograde 7 and ridicult/ The..people living in thirty-five, j£e "cities in America "say it.is not" iealous. In the city of Washington I- in ' February last. 30 cents was paid tn i milk which wdfJntettd;'t|Ot,.provide'for' the citizen* of. *' Ohlftsltchureh. In Saskatoon sinca'ss?'systeta of grading has been priced; the-Btanaa*a'df the-'miiir, haw De wS|WMed to a point of such per feetggs'that grading Ja nxr longer necesaarjvand all the'milk "supplied (125,000 gaQsoa per drawn from eowsfisee fromf tuberculosis. J At the City Council table on Monday r night, last Mr Paddae'stated that there Was not a practical'man at the head of "■> the Association, to which Councillor Sullivan interjected; "Perhaps you-will tell : if s what yon.propose fcfr the .improvement of the ms)k sup-. Vply." Then Ui Jiis letter^Mr, Parlane \r Bays that he has prepared" for the dairy-' ', men certain proposals. As these people ■, are chiefly retailers, it. will be inter- >,'"■- eating "to see retailers'are' going -l, to" improve, milipT . , . ,_ , " , *&* *The distributor cannot, improve the L| quality; He does well to keep it at ?V'tna' standard at which he received it! jp.Swprovement lips, with the producer, *nd him alonoi, ", not our organiser sought £&Pfy blessing of his Worship, apd whether the Mayor told Mr Parlane's asliji.Wiciates .tbey jwere fools is ' anyoithy g;'*; apace. .But J .am accused by Mr Parfife?** B ''' of'.denouncing the. bottling of ||iJaJ}k, some weeks ago. _ I denounced llgTOhing, but quoted what Dr. Pearson UpjWd found by analysis, vjz., that samples KiPt onthe average taken from de■RS|s!&<f ftn # Were better tha~n samples |M»|en from bottles. Some of the bottle Must thave been pretty bad, be> K*P?Jt^*: a lo * w first-class. This is strongest reasons for a 6& jflllgf/where cleansing and H^#!l!S d s"#' ob ?«pJy aad effectively ■BlfgSfo* * fo-, yojw i&we this doming a letter over the signa■HEff*,'*'* Birtwhistle, , and I would to reply to him. It would to invite all interests to our

meetings. It is .the producers and them only who, have it in their power to improve the milk'' supply. . .But, onr invitation 1 was received through the Town Clerk He may'enlighten Mr Birtwhistle upon the subject.—Yoursj etc., A. H. WHEELER. :?May ist,'l93o. .- ■'■•..; ' TO THE BDITOB 07 THB PRESS ;;•,.".Sir,—-I*have/ •read*'Mr-Parlane's \tti& i.BLrf whistle's letters with interest, and those .two gentlemen are ■ under. the im ; ■ supply is «w«ndcrful. I wonder, if Jfr Parlano knows where, all the milk is produced before being retailed; to the ■City, 1 suppose, I can positively say that a grcfat' quantity 'of milk is purchased by milkmen from unregistered .^'Not.Tfar.fronv.where I reside a milkman goes over the road and buys his milk from a place where, all kinds eT cows toe milked. How can milkmen prWall milk free from T.BX I understand •that- registered .;da'it:ies : have >t'<£ ; ones "suffering diseases ; are destroyed, '"only MM valtie'beihg'p'aid for the, beast, ■: whCreasvunreglatei'ed ■ dairies- escape. I wdiild alsb like to draw Mr Par- ■; lanVV:;' attention ! io ■'. these.- ; 'instances yjtr&ebit have, seen myself, and eonslder ;tfb|olu|ely/: filthy. One man : cools his milk ;byerhight in a Wafer-race, with dufckl paddling' tiround'th? drums, and thatiiilk is "retailed to the City while Mr Parlane is. asleep.; Another one, while I was waiting for a tram on a t at 11.15- a.m.,'went into a ; customer '.a. house and. returned with a bottle, flljqd it'oh the street amid dust, aid delivered-the same bottle next ;4do.f.vi; 'From that: day '.. to this I have never/usbd milk. . v : ': I Ihjnltthatrthe ,Milk- Producers'. As- . so«ftation's, idea, would be the making of this "Pity; * ' A. prop'er factory: could bo inspected* daily; arfd'tlie public would be satisfied -they would. ', be receiving j pure tested milk.—Yours, etc., ,„■:.- . ■ ALERT. I j May Ist,; 1030;,' -*V ' ■ ' ' •' I ..._.!*&. [.;'-■•■'::- '■. -■ ■;■ .■■ - • -..,■..•; •'■ - I