NEARE-BY FARMERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 11

NEARE-BY FARMERS

SUPPLY OF'MILK TO CITY A meeting of dairy farmers was held at Makara on Saturday evening, Mr. J. Purchase, secretary of the Wellington Suburban Farmers' Association, proMrt'w. 11. Field, M.P., who attended the meeting, said that ho considered the 1910 Milk Act a blunder; the nearby farmers did not realise the true meaning of the Act until it was enforced. Some of the restrictions imposed by the law had been removed; but there were still unfair provisions affecting the farmers. ■Mr. J. Purchase pointed out several anomalies in the Act. In the first place, tho nearby farmers.had to havo their milk tested from time to time by a health inspector paid by the municipal milk -department. The nearby farmers should bo given a right of fair trade, -or the City Council should buy out the farmers lock, stock, and barrel. The Government must be made to realise that the nearby farmers had been shackled long enough and must be given their freedom. Mr. Purchase put the following resolution to the meeting: "That the meeting determines that nearby farmers demand their freedom and" petition Parliament to introduce an Act in the coming session making provision that the nearby farmers be allowed to trade without restriction, the same as all other sections of thS community." This was seconded and'carried unanimously. - - ,