MILK SUPPLY IN CITY

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 12

MILK SUPPLY IN CITY

700 Questionnaires s■ Being Sent .:\\ INFORMATION SOUGHT B? COUNCIL ; In an endeavour to obtain the ftin. - est information about the city iiillc ', supply, the City Council yesterday * began sending questionnaires „so'. more than 700 producers, producer, vendors, and vendors operating in the metropolitan area. Proposals for civic control of the supply are being investigated by a special committee of the council, under the chairmanship of Sir Hugh Acland, and it has been claimed that if these proposalsare adopted, a satisfactory supply milk will be ensured and those eri-' gaged in the industry will be placed ' in a sounder financial position,'with an assured price for their milk and the practical elimination of bad debts. ' ■; The council asks that the questions be answered as fully as possible and '.. as soon as possible. All the replies will - be treated as confidential. Until this* information has been received,' -itwill not be possible for the spec.: ial committee to consider the proV posals from all aspects. Separate questionnaires are being senttoeachr of the three classes of suppliers. The'-.. circular to producers contains ">l4< questions, that to producer-vendors - 26 questions, and that to vendors,;' 20 questions. Many of the questions Have, natinW ally, been duplicated. An important question to producers asks whether" all their cows are tuberculin tested; how often they are tested and howmany reactors were found. Information is also sought about the num- ; ber of cows milked, the daily p«P duction, methods of cooling and hot-: tling milk, and of cleaning utensils/; and the disposal of milk not used for - town supply. Producers are asked -. to state what price a- gallon theyie.. quirj* to make their farms .pay,, price they receive in summer andwinter from vendors, and particulari ■, of labour employed. . -,-;;,'-. Both, producers and producer-ycttv dors are questioned as to the aieisisf- 1 which they deliver milk, their daily,, 1 distribution as well as the daily.dp- . tribution to shops and dairies, lint--. percentage of unsatisfactory contahv ers used by customers, the percentage of bottles unclean on return, the percentage of bad debts, the time occupied in delivery, the average' amount taken by each customer, and ' the time taken in collecting accounts..'