THE MILK TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 July 1915, Page 4

THE MILK TRADE.

_ <►- WELLINGTON HOSPITAL DIFFICULTIES. [By Telegraph— Special to Star.] WELLINGTON,- July 23. The milk supply for Wellington Hospital lias been a subject of contention for many months. Tiie Board has now been obliged to drop the idea of running its own dairy farm, and takes milk from a contractor. This decision was reached after a discussion, during which certain alleged practices in connection with the milk trade were referred to. Mr Robertson sa:d the milk now arriving was excellent in quality. It arrived in locked cans, which '.were unlocked at the hospital. All along the line, where milk was not locked in the cans, the contents were taken out and water added. Mr Moore said any rascal could pick a lock, and the Board would not be secured against theft. He thought it was almost impossible to get honesty in connection with the milk trade'; even the co-operative milk people were dishonest with each other and watered milk and abstracted cream. Mr Freeman: I've seen a dairy company director do it. Mr Moore said it was quite easy to so feed cows as to increase the yield of milk but to depreciate its quality. They would have to buy a farm and employ honest men, and they would have to be watched. Mr McEwen said that there were in the hospital stock a lot of patent foods I that ought to have long ago been 1/bumped out into the rubbish heap. The Chairman: Quite correct. The matter will be dealt with by the Hospital Committee.