THE MILK COUNCIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 12

THE MILK COUNCIL

Sir, —In your issue of Wednesday last appeared an estimate of expenditure for the upkeep of this council for the current year, which includes honoraria £c66, and staff salaries £2350, making approximately £3OOO, or about ona. half the total expenditure. This appeals as a pretty tidy sum, and draws attention to the fact that it is financed by a policy that is depriving the poorer section of consumers of their just quota of milk by reason of a price fixed that is other than economic. It is impossible that readers can Lave been impressed by the announcements made from time to time by this assembly. Indeed, the majority of these statements are |n open challenge to the intelligence of the public. For instance, the attempt to demonstrate bv accountancy and chemistry that milk produced in an Irea within a city zone can be figured or doctored into being purer or more wholesome than that obtained from farms in the open country abutting the line of restriction; or, that an economic price can be arrived at by cutting off supplies. E.S.C.,