THE CITY MILK SUPPLY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25566, 20 June 1944, Page 6

THE CITY MILK SUPPLY

Sir,—May I protest strongly against statements recently made through your columns regarding our city milk supply? As the youngest member of one of Dunedin’s first families, eight in number, the eldest well over 60 years of age, and all living and exceptionally healthy, I pay a tribute to the raw milk supply of our city on which we were reared. I do not think there is any need whatever for expensive pasteurising plants to be used in our city and probably increase the' price of milk at a time when this commodity is so necessary for our young generation. To-day I am receiving milk from a can at my home in St. Clair whicn is first grade, and I have always found that the raw milk delivered in our city is far ahead of that obtainable In other New Zealand cities, both in quality and price. If the milk is not satisfactory all housewives have the option, as I have, of getting the milk tested. Surely this is sufficient to ensure clean milk. In these days our dairy farmers are very short of help, and further worry and restrictions would be most unfair.—l am, e t c ._ J. L. Starr. • Dunedin, June 19-