TOWN MILK SUPPLIES AND CLEANLINESS

Grey River Argus, 19 February 1949, Page 3

TOWN MILK SUPPLIES AND CLEANLINESS

NAPIER, Feb. 18

At tire Municipal Association conference, delegates alleged a lack o' co-operation between tho Department of Agriculture and municipal health inspectors in seeing that sanitary conditions existed on farms supplying milk for town consumption. Other speakers said inspecto'’s wo’-e satisfactory, and a remit on the subject was lost. Mr W. Kemp (Masterton) moved that inspectors or miu authorities, or of local bodies, rvhorc there were no milk aiuhorities. b' given power to inspect the premises and plant on farms supplying milk for town consumption. He contended that the Department of was not ensuring that tho standarc of cleanliness w h’eh be and that there was a lack ot cooperation by the department. This view war, supported by Mr E • V Nmclaus (U r.ter Hutt), w’.iu seconded the 'Omit Delceales from the Auckland d"trict said the system of inspections in • lr . satisfactory. Mr M. H. Moss (Stratford) said that inspections could be carried out with the agreement of farmers. Last July, green slime was found in cans in’which milk was delivered 10 a treating house at Palmerston North, said Mr G. Tremaine- ( i-o •'■

erston North). Mr 1,. H. Clanham — he thought that borough inspectors would not have sufficient knowledge of milk supply needs, and suggested that a special committee be set up to p'o into the matter with the Department of Agriculture. The remit was lost '