NEW MILK STATION

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 13

NEW MILK STATION

WANTED FOR WELLINGTON

REMOVAL OF EXISTING DIFFICULTIES.

"When the times come 3, ns I hone it •will before many years are passed, to' : obtain a new station, wo shall bo .'ibie to so improve our methods as to enable the department to distribute an even better quality of article than can be made available to the public to-day." The manager of the- Municipal Milk Department (Rotarian R. E. Herron) made that announcement to the members of the Rotary Club yesterday, after pointing out that he was forced to admit that his department was working under a very great disadvantage so far as its premises were concerned, and, in consequence, the best results could not be achieved. "To my mind," said the manager,, "there js no possible reason why the producers and the- Corporation should not work together with the utmost harmony, particularly as the Corporation is prepared tb place in the hands of a properly-constituted impartial tribunal the appraising of the value of the milk supplied and -all . matters incidentalthereto. The farmers' prospects under such a system must, in my opinion, be more favourable than those of farmers adjacent to the other large cities of the Dominion who have to take the prices which are offered by the milk dealers controlling the trade of such cities. I am sure that you will fully appreciate the difficulties which have in the past pertained, and even now exist, and the amount of. co-operation which is essential to the complete success of t-ho scheme, hut I feel confident that complete success will eventually be obtained, because there are so many sound reasons why a large city's milk business should be handled by a central control and authority. For instance: (a) The blocking of the city in distributing the milk; (b) the scientific control of the quality and sanitary condition of the milk; (c) the exclusion of •profit-making, thereby allowing quality and sanitary condition to be the governing instincts; (d) the organisation of transport; (c) the power to enforce a bottle system of deliver;, (f) the power to enforce, through the use of token, a cash system of payment; (g) the means of co-operation with the Health authorities in all those matters which ars necessary to ensure the health 0 ..I Clty trough, its milk supply. I have personally, inspected the systems at Auckland, Christchurch, and Duhedm, and have either discussed or corresponded with many interested par- ! ties on the present position and problems pertaining to the milk supply systems of the Australian cities, and I am I satisfied that there is no' city milk supply system existing in Australasia that comes up to that operating in our own city. .....-■•