"NOT A BOGEY"

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 108, 7 May 1926, Page 6

"NOT A BOGEY"

NEARBY FARMERS AND MILK COMMITTEE.

A reply was made to-day Lgr Mr. J. Purchase, chairman of the Suburban Farmers' Association, to the statement made in "The Post" last ovening by the chairman of the City Council Milk Committee (Councillor W. H. Bennett). "While we are pleased with the assurance of Mr. W. H. Beonett that there will'be no cessation of milk inspection," stated Mr. Purchase, "I would like to tell him, through you, that no bogey has. been raised by the nearby farmer. What we have stated are actual facts. Does Mr. IST. H. Bennett realise that this affair has been in the air for quite six months and during that time many inquiire3 have been made, including a visit to Mr. H. D. Bennett, chairman of the Health Committee, who gave us to understand that while inspection would not entirely cease it might be seriously diminished from our point of viewf One of his reasons was that inspection was carried on in Wellington to the extent of 50 per cent, more than in otiher centres, uad naturally he had his department to consider, as well as the chairman of the Milk Committee. The remarks regarding the neutrality of the inspector are pure moonshine, and are used as a means to an end, the financial aspect being the prime factor. Mr. W. H. Bennett would have the public believe that the two guineas chargeable under the Act wag not of their own seeking. Surely he must have a short memory when he forgets that the council's representatives before the Labour ' Bills Committee in 1919, not being satisfied with the restriction of 30 gallons, asked for ljd, and then came down to id per gallon royalty on the 30 gallons we were to bring in. The committee finally decided on the present charge of two guineas. "The chairman of the Milk Committee accuses us of using abuse. Does ho realise that those who stoop to this use do so for want of argument? Let me remind him while he is levelling charges of this kind at others he could be better employed in trying to uplift the commercial moral tone of the dapartment he controls."