MILK DRINKING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 4

MILK DRINKING

DAILY PRACTICE IN^ U.S.A.

(Special to the '^Evening Post.")

PALMERSTON N:,: This;, Day.

The*'.' opinion*;'that-, the -time had arrived, when New Zealand should organise" a : high-quality milk service, 'was expressed by Professor ,W. Riddet, head of the Dairy Research institute, when addressing Rotaxians in Palmerston North yesterday., He said that the U.SA. could teacb. [us something in this regard. ' ; , Professor Riddet spoke of his ob--servations abroad and "said that in the U.S.A. not only, the' growing generation but also business people consumed milk daily and health .propaganda work had contributed to the growing and beneficial habit. Outstanding features were that the raw milk supply came up to a very high standard and all the milk was pasteurised and distributed cleanly. In many cities it was an offence to buy milk unless from proven non-tubercular cows. A case of bovine tuberculosis was rare- in New York children. ■'•-'■./

than' in pounds,' that is'to' say; the pounds meant by the Act, which were New Zealand pounds. It is also said that the contract must anyhow, be so construed, whatever the place of payment, in order to prevent it being held ultra vires and void. It is further or alternatively contended that the prima facie rule ..of construction applied in the Adelaide case is excluded by the conditions of the Act of 1913 incorporated' in the: documents, which require that the debentures and coupons should be issued in pounds,* that is New Zealand pounds,' as being the pounds postulated^ in; the:* Act of 1913. Their Lordships- cannot'"accept either contention. They do riot think any question of.ultra vires arises."' ' On the plain reading of the Act of 1913 their Lordships thought that the "pound" contemplated and authorised by the Act meant''the common unit of account current in Great Britain and- in various parts of the British Empire, and that the currency which it connoted in the case of any particular loan would be determined by the place, whether. within New Zealand or outside of .New Zealand, stipulated as the. place of payment in the debenture;: ,-"■'■;■ : ~\\ ; . .-.' "

In accordance"with. the ' agreement between the : parties, <no order was necessary respecting the. costs.

Mr. S. O. Henn Collins, K.C., Mr. Alexander Ross, and Mr. Joseph Stanton (of the' New. Zealand-Bar) appeai--ed for the v ap'pellerits; • Mr. Gavin Simonds, K.C., and Mr. Wilfrid Barton for, the respondents. The solicitors were. Messrs.-Wray,. Smith,- and Halford; .'and. Messrs.^ Dawes-and -Sons. . ■