MILK CONTROL BOARD

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 200, 21 May 1931, Page 16

MILK CONTROL BOARD

Auckland Vendors’ Scheme DISTRIBUTION COSTS By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 20. On the ground Hhat any request for Government intervention must come from the City Council, the Prime Minister today told a deputation representing milk vendors to place before the council their proposal to set up. under the Board of Trade Act. a city milk control board. ’ A member of the deputation said he .thought the cost of distribution of milk in Auckland was 3d. or 4d. per gallon more than in Wellington. In one street of 110 houses 34 carts delivered milk. The Prime Minister commented that generally it was the consumer who complained of the distribution costs. He recognised that competition was sometimes wasteful and even destructive, but it existed in all businesses, and could not be eliminated. If there could be a combination whereby it was agreed that there should be one milk vendor, no doubt it would be in the consumers’ interest. If the City Council applied for extended, powers to control the milk supply, continued Mr. Forbes, the Government would sympathetically consider the question.