HIGH-PRICED MILK
Cost of Delivery Big Factor In Charges DEPOT SYSTEM URGED Dominion Special Service. Carterton, May 5. Factors contributing toward the high retail price of milk in the cities were mentioned by Mr. H. R. Renali, at the annual meeting of the Carterton branch of the Farmers’ Union, when a remit was received from the Eketahuna branch recommending that the position be investigated In view of the fact that ample supplies were now available at greatly reduced cost. Mr. Renali said he failed to see how any reduction could be made in the price of milk delivered in Wellington so long as the present system of transport remained in operation. To-day everyone wanted their goods delivered at the door, he said, and if they wanted that they would have to pay for it. Milk bottles were delivered at practically every door in Wellington, and the cost of that delivery must be enormous. Where formerly a farmer had five customers to 100 gallons of milk in Wellington, he now had fifty, and to supply them cost money. Mr. Renali advocated the milk depot system. Instead of having one large distributing centre, this could be divided into sub-centres at convenient places where customers could go for their milk —not let it be brought to them.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 187, 7 May 1934, Page 14
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