MILK CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27037, 12 May 1953, Page 3

MILK CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION

BOARD DECLINES REQUEST

FOR INFORMATION “I say that they have a darned cheek to ask for it," said Mr W. P. Warner when the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board yesterday considered a request for information from the Milk Consumers’ Protection Association. The board adopted Mr Warner’s recommendation that no action should be taken. The secretary of the association wrote asking for "information on the board’s policy to: (1) availability to the public of raw, stored or pasteurised cream and why a restriction on raw cream: (2) a continuation of a right of choice of raw or pasteurised milk delivered (by right of choice, delivered, we mean delivered to the consumer as hitherto, not come and get it); (3) and further to your letter of December 16 concerning zoning of deliveries. which stated ‘that the board had asked the zoning officer to bring down proposals to a meeting to be held in February, whereby vendors Would be permitted to serve in their own zones and in three further zones upon request,’ we would be pleased to receive a report of the ultimate decision. reached.” The chairman (Miss M. B. Howard, M.P.) said that the board’s meetings were “open” and Mr J. Mathison, M.P., said that publicity was given to its deliberations.