MILK CLEARING-HOUSE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9869, 15 January 1918, Page 3

MILK CLEARING-HOUSE

To the Editor "N.Z. Times/'

Sir, —Your leader will cot help the situation at all, being no more than a mere tissue of speculative imagination bathed in an atmosphere of lad. and should the council be unwise enough, to heed it they would find the bite bigger and more jaw-breaking than anything ever before. The bottle business is wrong scientifically as well as economically, and I venture to predict will never raise its head again. The overlapping question is one that at the present crucial period of paper and labour shortage the newspapers would do well to investigate on their own _ behau. Certainly the claim that Christchurch has taken the project on is a bold hazard in the light of .authentic information we possess on the subject, vv hen the management were so amenable to stage-fright, as was proved by their collapse on Wednesday last, they would have to acquire a' little more backbone before wresting the entire responsibility, a condition of timidity which makes for some degree of safety to the public. The principal expenditure, so far, has not been misspent, and a very reasonable further outlay will under competent management render the institution a useful one in the public interest. —X am, eto., HENRY BODLEY.