THE CITY MILK SUPPLY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 11

THE CITY MILK SUPPLY.

I STANDARD kept, recaltions taken, jy of the C'liriatcliurch uiilk juj- many .years beuu of as iduitl as any in Now Zeawl. Ur. A. U. Pearson, of litksjiilul, who u lew years out a series of bacteriui on milk sold in tlio City, irti'i* of "The Press" yes- , (.hristchurch milk is aa it supplied in uny city in iaiund paper recently re- , {jishunio's town supply id greatly in recent years, i new system of bacteriouj; copied from the ting- , and hub now aa good as city milk supplies, lamed to a representative gptft ycbterday, however, jjiU Jiow Zealand standard has, |phole, been higher tlmn the Bi kJandard for many years, and E* hlanditrd in Christohurch in Bftitr lioii k'on one of the best of ||§.£eaia.nd towns and cities. |j«tfefartory state of ulfairs is St; to thti credit of the Departjpif Ayrimlturo, which keeps a |«»tch over all suppliers of inilk L distributors. Milk rounds in Msyre!) are liren.sed by the City ■E »n«l nil appiicauts for a Hptau»t give tlio names of the ■hi from whom they are going ||j,V4< lli» ir milk. 'l'ho Council BL>a pu-n llieso names on to the Igwiit of Agriculture, and the Hftlit'H inspectors reiwrt on the |p#<. of the herds and tiieir freoEmu tuberculosis. If the report pafiirtory the issue of a license SpiretaiW is recommended to the |p Committee, in whose hands jptfro! lioM. .Department Tests. ktiiiii of the milk after it lias Si jjjiuls of the supulieru is car■pk by the City Council's in- || mid the Health Department. PjiVL'rmmMit Analyst, on behalf Eg Hcnllh Department, makes Mil biicleriologieal teats aa well p fur water content, and praseK »rw brought by the Health pupilt in cases where the retailer piling the law by selling imK or milk with too great a Ikn of water in it. pP«»nrvon snid that some years |it bad carried out exhaustive li the Christehnrch milk supply |M he<"i» exceedingly satisfied K, He hud inspected many Bftrid found them all in exeelbkiir and rtriltingly clean and Jar, and lie had carried out some ■ls of bacteriological tests on ■light at random from retailors. i|t never found, he said, artv taf tahorciilmis. and he believed mg Chriwtchwn-h snpnly was as Ml atiT in *he world, certainly f in Now Zealand.