PRICE OF MILK IN CHRISTCHURCH
Recommendation To Seek Tribunal Defeated By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Juno 19. On the casting-vote of tin? mayor, Mr. MacFarlane, the Christchurch City Council tonight decided against a committee recommendation tliat Ihe Minister of Marketing be asked to set up a tribunal to sit in Christchurch and fix the price of milk. A long discussion on the proposal disclosed an unusual party cleavage, several Labour councillors criticizing a recommendation of one ot their colleagues (Cr. Mabel Howard, who is chairman of tiie abattoir, reserves and milk committee), and several Citizens’ Association councillors voting for it. Tiie principal argument against, the recommendation was that a fixed price might jeopardize tiie coiineil's Metropolitan Milk Bill, which will come before Parliament in the coming session.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 224, 20 June 1939, Page 5
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126PRICE OF MILK IN CHRISTCHURCH Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 224, 20 June 1939, Page 5
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