MILK COMMISSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24599, 2 June 1943, Page 4

MILK COMMISSION

AUCKLAND EVIDENCE REDUCTION IN SUPPLY Additional evidence in reply to questions by representatives of various interests was given by the chairman ot the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, Mr- I. J- Goldstine, before the Milk Supply Commission, which held its second day's public sitting in the Auckland Electric-Power Board's board room yesterday. The members of the commission are Messrs. W. 11. Tuck, of Auckland (chairman), A. H. Ward, of Wellington, and G. W. Dell, of Christel] urch.

Examined by Mr. C. J. Lovegrove, who represented the dairymen of the Auckland milk district, Mr. Goldstine said various reasons had been advanced for variations in pay-outs to producers, including varying surpluses, and distances which pools might have to go for accommodation milk. A pool supplying school milk would have a lower pay-out than one catering only for the retail trade. Production costs oi suppliers had not been reviewed by the council since March, 1941. Pasteurisation Question

Replying to Mr. Turner, who appeared for the New Zealand Women s Food Value League, Mr. Goldstine said the compulsory pasteurisation of milk had been discussed by the milk council without a decision being reached. Compulsory bottling had been found impracticable, owing to the impossibility of obtaining bottles or additional plant. In normal times it would not be difficult to bottle the whole supply. After describing the arrangement whereby some producersoperated under temporary licences during the winter months. Mr. Goldstine said no farmer whose farm qualified and who applied for a permanent licence would be refused it.

Answering Mr. Perry, who had_ been appointed by the Trades Council to represent consumers, Mr. Goldstine said he had no details of household sales over holiday periods, when the schools were closed. In those periods they would increase on the North Shore and decrease in the. city. Shortage of Fertiliser

There was no special regulation of the council regarding the , health of people delivering milk. He considered that a 2o to 30 . per cent reduction of the milk supply to Auckland had occurred as the result of the shortage of fertiliser. The council believed that as long as the shortage of fertiliser continued there would be a severe restriction of production. Kvidence was given by Arthur Thompson, of Morningside, a vendors' representative on the milk council, who advocated the formation of producers' co-operative pools within the council's area and the use by vendor-producers of pasteurisation plants installed by themselves so as to save the cost of cartage for pasteurisation in town. He favoured a method of price fixation based on the guaranteed price.

PISTOL CONFISCATED SOUVENIR OF LAST WAR (0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday 'Tt looks as though he might be. going to open a second front," said Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the Xew_ Plymouth Police Court, in connection with a case in which a man was charged on two informations with breaches of the Arms Act.

The remark was prompted by some diagrams of guns and war theatre maps which were placed before the magistrate in support of a plea by the defendant that the pistol had been put together by the son of his former housekeeper.

The charges were against Henry Reedman, who, through' Mr. Monaghan, pleaded not guilty on the ground that the pistol.was* believed to be a relic of the last war, that he could not have put it together, that he was unaware that it was a complete weapon, or that it ought to have been registered if lie desired to retain possession of it.

The magistrate said he thought the defendant was honest in saying he did not know the pistol was an effective firearm. He convicted him without any other penalty except the confiscation of the weapon. "Can I have a part of it. to keep with ray other war relics?" asked the defendant, who displayed a board with some trophies attached, but the magistrate declined the request.

WIFE JOINS ARMY

HUSBAND SEEKS RETURN Seven petitions for restitution of conjugal rights were brought before Mr. Justice Callan yesterday. "My wife left me when she went to join the Army as a gunner," said Courtney Stanton Barrett (Mr. Meek), who sought an order for the return of Margaret Barrett. He said they were married in October, 1941, when she was 19, and they had no children. After becoming a gunner, her attitude changed, and she had not returned home since.

His Honor said that if the wife was not going to behave as a wife the husband was entitled to divorce her. "I hope somebody will explain to her that she will not be a gunner for ever," he added. An order was made for her to return to the petitioner within 28 days. Seeking a restitution order against Adrian Carl Pvne, Marion Thelma Pyne (Mr. Towlc). said they were married in May, 1927, and had two daughters. They had been very happy together until about last September, when her husband said he was unhappy and wanted to leave. One Sunday last January she returned home to find that tier husband had left, taking ail his possessions with him. An order was made for the husband to return within 21 da vs.

In ilie following cases, the respondent was ordered to return to the petitioner within 28 days:—Gilbert George Webster Jinnian (Mr. Wiseman), against Constance Marie Ada Jinnian; Sydney Murray Bbggs (Mr. Webster), against Leah Boggs; George Cox (Mr. Wilkin), against Marie Cox; Ralph Randolph Marmont (Mr, Newbery), against Marie Gwendoline Marmont.