PASTEURISATION OF MILK

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22167, 10 August 1937, Page 16

PASTEURISATION OF MILK

TO THE EDITOB OF THE PRESS. Sir, —I was glad to see the letter in Friday’s paper concerning milk and the City Council’s interference with it. I think'it is very probable that the lack of fresh milk is having much to do with the diseases so many children and adults, too, are attacked with. I am in Wellington fairly often and use as little as possible of the miserable milk there. I think it not only lacks nourishment but also that it is not wholesome. What the Government needs to do is to see that dairies are kept thoroughly clean and the articles they use there also cle&h and the milk delivered fresh. For some time much of the milk has not been fresh. Government interference has made things worse, and it is not possible for dairymen to get the morning’s milk delivered for breakfast at a great many places, if at all. Most people like to choose their own tradesmen, and certainly their our dairymen whom they tan rely on to bring them new milk. I think it is absolutely necessary for children. I hope the people of Christchurch will make a strong protest against having their milk made unfit for them by pasteurisation. More harm is done by that than by an occasional careless dairyman • who should be put out of business. Individual management in business is always better than Government interference, for it is a persppal matter with individuals, and they wish to suit their customers. If the supply of fresh milk is done away with, we shall soon have an extra supply of disease. — Yours, etc., PURE MILK. August 9, 1937.-