WHOLESALE MILK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27039, 25 March 1949, Page 4

WHOLESALE MILK

DEPUTATION TO BOARD VENDORS DISSATISFIED CONSIDERATION DEFERRED A deputation from the Dunedin Milk Vendors’ Association, led by Mr R. Greenway, vice-president, waited upon the Dunedin Metropolitan Milk Board last night regarding the wholesale zoning of milk. It was alleged by the association that the vendors had had the oral assurance of Mr Innes, of the Milk Marketing Division, that the Milk Treatment Station would not be entering into the milk vending field. This assurance, said Mr Greenway, was given when the temporary wholesale licences were granted. The assurance was also given that when the board was in the position to zone the whole of the wholesale supply the gsilonage handled by the Treatment Station would also be dealt with. _ It was stated that when the re-zoning was completed the new licences _ for this wholesale supply would be given to ex-servicemen. __ , . Instead, not only was the Treatment Station retaining its wholesale deliveries but it was getting the trade m from out of the six wholesale zones. The members of the association considered that they should not lose their licences for these wholesale deliveries, but that the present status quo should r6 Mr ll Greenway said the members of his association were not objecting, or would not object to. licences for wholesale supply being granted to ex-ser-vicemen but that they did object to the Government Milk Treatment Station getting a monopoty of the business. During a later discussion on the sudiect, the chairman. Mr W. B. Taverner, stated that the board had. no knowledge of any oral undertaking regarding wholesale zoning given by Mr Innes to the Vendors’ Association. The board deferred further consideration until a later date, and after the position had been referred to the muk marketing division in Wellington. Bottled Milk There must be some reason to explain how vendors came into possession of milk bottle caps, stated Mr J. G. Barnes during a discussion dealing with a complaint wherein it was alleged that a vendor had filled bottles and capped them on his rounds. _ It could not be too forcibly stressed, he said, that vendors caught doing this would receive no consideration from the board. Their licences vyould be suspended. Complaints, too, had been received from consumers that tney sometimes received bottles with an old date on the cap. Consumers were entitled to refuse to take delivery of this milk, he added. . The secretary said it had been suggested that the outdated bottles had been in the vendors’ hands from the da On b the suggestion of the chairman, it was decided to write to the manager of the Milk Treatment Station and ask him for a report on the matter of the caps. „ No Cream Complaints by consumers that they had been unable to got permit cream were received by the board. It was stated by the chairman that vendors could get all the cream they required to meet permits from the Milk Treatment Station.