MILK SUPPLY CONTROL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22087, 17 April 1935, Page 14

MILK SUPPLY CONTROL

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS LOCAL BODIES' INTERESTS A suggestion that the local body representatives on the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council should be invited to attend a combined meeting of local body members to discuss the proposed amendments to the Act ivas debated by the Ellerslie Town Board last night. Mr. S. Somerfield moved that the board should register its disapproval of the amendments. The cost of administration under the Milk Council last year was quoted at about £SOOO, said Mr. Somerfield. That sum would go a long way toward providing free milk for schoolchildren. Mr. 11. I. Simson said he did not favour "wholesale disapproval." The original Act conferred certain powers and the council now claimed that it could only function efficiently by the increased powors defined in the amendments. "The Milk Council requires these powers to prove whether control can be a success," added Mr. Simson. Mr. A. H. Mclntyre said tho suburban local body members on the council should state their views regarding the amendments. He suggested that they be urged to pieet all local bodies in the same way as producers and vendors wer<3 consulted by their respective members. It was decided to request Mr. I. J. Goldstine, a local bodies' representative on the Milk Council, to meet tho board in the matter.