"A CIVIC PRIDE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 46, 23 February 1923, Page 7

"A CIVIC PRIDE

WELLINGTON'S MILK SYSTEM PRAISE FRO^t AUCKLAND, (IT TILEQRAPH.—SPECIAL TO HE FOST.) 1 AUCKLAND, This Day. In a, special article the "New Zealana Herald" deals with Wellington's milk i supply system as follows:—"The feature of civic pride in Wellington is the success of the municipal control of the milk supply of the growing city. It is glowingly described as astonishing and marvellous. One might say, indeed, that the. citizens' satisfaction with the hygienic system of milk distribution is the outstanding compensation for the winds that forever roam about the eyries of the capital, and for the dust that whirls in clouds along the Thorndon road as if mercifully to hide the terrible railway station, for, if Auckland's central station be the purgatory of the traveller by train, Wellington's is the other place.

"The good folk of Wellington, however, now obtain much consolation from the stoppered bottle of milk. Rich in cream, slightly pasteurised for long keeping, and always in statutory measure, it is the abiding joy of the public and the Plunket nurse. The future virility of Wellington will make the more queenly city look to her laurels. It is felt .down there that full cream milk must prevail in the end. All that may seem rhapsodical. It is but the distant echo of the unanimous praise of the one great triumph of the municipality of Wellington. Even the crudest outline of the distribution of milk for the sturdy inhabitants of the steep-terraced city ■makes it a system enviable for its simplicity, wholesomeness, and economic honesty.

"It is interesting to note that Wellington's 1 milk distribution was fathered, ag the saying goes., by an enthusiast, Mr. C. J. Norwood, who for years had to fight uphill against influential odds. He was the right type of civic fighter and won through in the end. Private enterprise fought to the last ditch, and the City Council was involved in much litigation.. That phase has passed completely. The hygienic system of distribution has come to stay, and it has been so successful and satisfactory to everybody concerned that citizens of Wellington now wonder why they ever tolerated the old method such as stTll exists in Auckland. Until Auckland goes and does likewise its citizens had better bite their tongues on the praise of their civic enterprise and progress. Milk in stoppered bottles is rnai progress."