MILK.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4869, 19 March 1887, Page 3

MILK.

■■■ ■ < [to the editor.] Sir, —Seeing your article in yesterday's paper referring to the bad quality of the milk supplied to the Union Steamship Company, I think, with a little explanation, it can plainly be shown why the milk would not keep. The milk as supplied to the company was milked at the farm, and at once put in the cart and sent into town and delivered at the wharf, " our place of delivery," and instead of it being at once taken off to tho ship, as it should have been, it was left on the wharf in tho sun for several hours, and even when it has been taken on board they would keep it standing on the deck till the last launch left, and they were obliged to send the cans back. Now, in the other cases you mention, the ship comes in alongside and the milk is at once delivered on board. The cool chamber which the company's agent told me the milk was kept in. registered, the day I went on board, between 70 and 80 degrees. I also asked the agent to take samples out of the cans when brought on the wharf and keep them in Ms office, and also to have it analysed. Now, as contractors, I don't think we could do more than that, and I also can bring witnesses to prove that the milk was pm-o and straight from tho cows, except when the agent himself ordered glacialine to bo put in.—l am, &c, J. S. Haeland, (Late Cameron & Harland.)