MILK SUPPLY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 112, 13 April 1936, Page 5

MILK SUPPLY.

POSITION AT AUCKLAND. DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. Per Press Association AUCKLAND, April 12. The opinion that there must be complete municipaliSation of" the milk sup- | plv and that it must he demociatically I controlled was expressed by the Ministei of Internal Affairs (Hon W. E. Parry) in l replying to u deputation troro. tue Uiesh i Milk Producers and Vendors’ Association, i The Minister added that the whole phase lof the situation relating to unnecessary duplication, including local bodies, would have to be gone into and more things would have to be done by the City Coun'll° Organisation had to take place, he said. There, had to be a period of transition before' the ideal state was reached and some persons might get."‘hurt, but in accordance with the policy of the Government there would be other places ready for those persons being replaced. The summarised position was •as follows : The public wanted milk; that milk had to be in the best condition. The customer bad to have a standard of income sufficient to acquire the milk; the producer had to have a fair return. Distribution had to be carried out in the most econmic and effective way and unnecessary duplication eliminated. Mr,Parry said the same thing applied to meat and other commodities. There was no need for the community to employ' persons “to dig holes in the beach and fill them up again.” The Government wanted shorter hours and to give people leisure. Wherever contradictory systems were found organisation must take their | place. , The cases advanced by the various j sides of the deputation would receive very; close attention before anything was done. The Government, he concluded, must not greate any systems that would not be in alignment with its future general reorganisation scheme for. the Dominion. . " j.■■ I