THE PRICE OF MILK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21599, 21 March 1932, Page 8

THE PRICE OF MILK

TO THE EPITUK

Silt,—Letters have appeared in your columns lamenting the unlivable price which the milk producers are receiving for their produce—6d a gallon. It simply amounts to this, that those who are paying rents or interest are faced with the inevitable, bankruptcy, and must walk oft their places. Sixpence a gallon and pay your way! It cannot be done. The bills that you owe cannot he paid. Trades people want their money, however, and you are threatened with a summons. No doubt most of us will have to appear before the magistrate. One writer suggests that something might be done. What that something is it is beyond me to suggest. To-day every milkman is engaged in a life-and-deatli struggle to get customers, selling milk at any old price, with the result that the companies, being the happy hunting grounds for all new starters, are suffering most. The poor producer has not got a say at all. He has just to take what is left or go without. The time may come when the City Council will take control or the public will, for health reasons, refuse to take other than pasteurised milk, and until then we can howl to the moon for all the good we will do. It seems to me that, with the existing economic chaos, with distress and suffering all around us, we may expect the doxology at any old time. —I am, etc.. Pessimist.