THE CITY MILK SUPPLY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 6

THE CITY MILK SUPPLY

Sir,-1 have the greatest admiration for tiio Mayor, although I have onl seen him once, but ho is qmlo »ion|s to interfere in the milk supply business, winch neither he. nor any otlici councillor knows anytlnngabout. it takes long years to learn the trade, to succeed one should be horn to it. As for this talk of reserving areas round Wellington for dairying, tins is nonsense. There is very little dairying land about Wellington. It. is all too steep. To get dairying land he wants to go between Otnki and Loviu. All the mi k of this great daiijing country would come to Wellington if it was made worth while. But the price is not right. To make up for all this clean-

liness and quality tests and general persecution tliat goes on in Wellington (in no other • city, is the matter pressed so far) the price of mill: would have to he doubled, foolish magistrates give big lines, as much as £25, which is the profits for tho year. A man would be better on wages. Ko are you surprised that dairymen are) full up and seeking an escape from tyranny, as it is only a lottery which dairyman will be had up next for dirty milk or lack of cream, over neither of which have they much control. A cow puts? her foot (in a full bucket, the angry dairyman may or may not slash it all outfit all depends if he is shorn o*r not; but if lie employs milkers, mid tho same thing liappcns, and the boss is not'looking, this will go into the general average, and tho inspector may, happen along, or ho may not. The man who did not throw out the milk cared nothing about him, nor anybody else; what worried him was that his boss should not know and avoid a row. What is all this inspection about anyway? In 10,000 farms throughout New Zealand the milk is never inspected, and every township is supplied therefrom, with equal satisfaction to Wellington.If a household is not satisfied with ona milkman they call in another. Make the price big enough and Wellington will bo inundated with milk to spara and throw away. Fresh milk is about Is. a quart in England, so it must ha far too cheap hero with wages and transport double' what they aro in England, and the people here earning such' high wages, they can pay for the best of milk. Low prices load to cheating and evasions, hut there is not much "of that in Wellington. How can a factory compcto with a town for a supply rif milk? The thing is absurd. It would simply show that the town price was not right.—l am, .etc., HAPPY VALLEY.