THE MILK QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 239, 27 June 1918, Page 6

THE MILK QUESTION

. 4 SHORTAGE ON MONDAYS THE MAYOR ON THE SITUATION lieferring to the shortage of milk which is being experienced somewhat cutely O n Mondays in Wellington, the Mayor eaid that the conditions prevailing now are-similar to what they wore at this time last year, when the council was doing its utmost to solve the milk problem During part of last winter tiie snortago on Mondays was so serious owing to the stoppage of all Sunday trains that tho council went to some expense in subsidising a. motor wagon service to bring the milk in from (.he moro distant sources of supply on Sundays, feome people have the idea that the actual shortage occurred on Sundays. Such was not the case. Sunday's milk arrived alWight on the Saturday, but Mondays milk was not fo sure. Tho cost of bringing in milk from Featherston on the one line, and Olaki on tho other, last winter was very considerable, and was! one that they did not wish to incur again. They had done all in their power to get the producers and vendors to make some arrangement which would ensure a supply of milk to the city on a Monday morning, but could get no undertaking from them which promised to give that assurance to citizons. The milk problem of the city was not yet solved. The committee of the countoil, which was sot up after tho contreteriip3 over .the clearing-liouso, has been very busy collecting evidence and getting information on which to base a feasible scheme for the distribution of milk throughout the city, and he hoped that the report would ba ready for presentation to the council at the first meeting next month. There was a suggestion that an advisory committee be set up Jo ftct with the committee of the council, power to do so being already contained in the Municipal Corporations Act. Personally lie did not favour giving over the control of such a big utility as the milk supply of Wellington to any body altogether outside the City Council.