THE MILK SUPPLY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13614, 6 December 1907, Page 4

THE MILK SUPPLY.

■ m '■■"',. I ..■■ -.'■-: . :■:'■ -. ■ . ■■'. - • -" .. AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON." _ ■ Speaking at Tarnell recently, Dr. Mason, ; Chief Health Officer, severely condemned the Wellington milk supply. Mr. Brandon, manager of the Fresh Food and Ice Com- - pany, in reply, said it was "a piece of consummate cheek to condemn Wellington , milk in the wholesale manner Dr. Mason , had done. He tpoke, he added, for between a-fifth and ;i sixth part of the total, quantity of milk distributed daily, and while he admitted that dozens of carte and. ■ shops employed in the milk trade were kept in a filthy condition, he regarded Br. Masons general condemnation, -as ' too stringent-altogether. ' . Dr. -Mason,'. in replying, states ; "I am not quit sure what p.)irt °* a-.' remarks Mr. Brandon found/ fault with- ; .- 1 It is not part of the duly of an official to teach his critics .manners, but if- Mr. Brandon had contented himself with provi ing that the milk supply of Wellington w« . always clean, free from preservatives, and of full nutritive value, I think his criticism , r would have had greater weight. _ The own-.': pany, of which he is the manager, has, to my knowledge, made great endeavours to secure that the milk supplied to them m by them should be good. I would bar* little difficulty, it necessary, out ol fi» own mouth, to show that he had. not. «- .; ways been successful. lam certain ne 1 ,' criticising some incomplete statement .as W what I said a* Parnell. _ " When speaking the other night, i <»■ , phasised the fact that I wanted my iff™ ■ ■ to be taken quite impersonally, and * *Y peatedly, in answer to interjectionsi ana wticisms, said that perhaps it would bo &w- , ter to assume that all milk supple M , | Auckland people.whs good, and that it vonly in Wellington that bad milk wm »£ I said there was no article of food 3ny. . susceptible to : such treatment than -»-•*'. and there was no article that g^ mo *r >a . : pointed out that the fault was not one«•_ , tirely due to -the producer of miUt or » milk seller, but a large amount of «* >«> done, to this most valuable food wa ■*?* " . by the householders themselves. . . •'There is no one-outride of **?, but who will admit that the uulk bgF of many of the large town, is far fi «» "g. ■ what, it ought to be, and from :tJ >* "«-, manner in which the n-prewlalij* J •' milk trade receive*! the foreshadow ; , guktions lam perfectly certain ■*&* <" ■ results of the consultation will W m * tivej only of jets** good*"- l r v ■ ' '? ' . . ~ Hi'Mf,