CITY MILK SUPPLY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 191, 15 May 1928, Page 11

CITY MILK SUPPLY

CHALLENGE TO WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

Mr. W. Stuart Wilson "writes; —“I challenge the Mayor and city councillors of Wellington to produce the views" of one practising medical man in Wellington that the pasteurised milk supplied by them is ‘sound from every point of view.’

“I gave the Milk Committee convincing evidence that pasteurised milk causes constipation to infants and invalids, and evidence that, to go on supplying this milk when the corporation could supply pure milk at probably less cost was far from desirable. How many of our industrial workers can afford to buy fruit juice to offset and make pasteurised milk even a second-class article for infants with oranges at old. each? I now appeal to Caesar—the ratepayers’ associations —who . control nnd mould the policy of the Civic League to compel the city corporation to institute a competent commission of inquiry for the purpose of finding out if it is not' possible for the City Council to give citizens the choice of pure milk or pasteurised milk. I do not expect to bring Our city corporation to reason on this momentous question, and therefore will petition I’arliament nt the opening of the session next month to compel. these leaders of the blind to adopt, a policy in line with modern practice.”