The Price of Milk

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 14

The Price of Milk

Sir, —In this morning’s paper you published a letter from “Dairyman” (Petone), who states that he thinks I have no idea of business —perhaps he is right. I do not live in Petone, and have just been notified that owing to the wholesale price being raided the present retail price at my dairy, Petone, is 3|d. per quart and 1/- per gallon. , During the summer months certain dairymen were delivering milk in Petone. at 3d. per quart. Milk was being retailed in Wanganui at 3d. per quart by most of the dairies. “Dairyman” states: “Suppose ‘Kiwi’ sells five gallons of milk per day.” I suppose he will be astonished to learn that I sell ten, and sometimes more. With regard to milk left over, I generally allow for a surplus, and any left over at the end of the day is made into butter, which I retail at 9d. lb. Regarding my remark about the English farmers, I was in England at the time, and am not relyiug on hearsay. Dairies sell other things beside milk, and my business has increased 50 per cent, within the past two months. “I hope" Dairyman” can say the same. -I am, etc., KIWI . Wanganui, May 4.