THE BLOCK SYSTEM.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1266, 4 March 1918, Page 4

THE BLOCK SYSTEM.

' ! To the Editor of THE SUX. .Sir, —The sponsors of the block sys--1? Tom of milk delivery have so far shown I no valid reason for its adoption, but, on . the contrary, have supplied a susph-ion , that the purchasing public is ]ierhnps “ better off with an evil with which it is : acquainted than with one of which it 1 is in ignorance. The present system is - admittedly imperfect, but it at least i gives the purchaser the opportunity of ;• changing his purveyor immediately he desires to do so. and in that respect j it is much to be preferred to a system which —until any complaint is inquired I into —compels the customer to continue - I taking his supplies from a certain pur- ) veyor, notwithstanding any shortcom- ! Ungs on the part of the latter. There is • a bit too much of the donii neeri ng _ I monopolist in the block system for the . average householder, who objects to be 1 ing bulldozed into buying from n party I to whom he may have some objection or > other. i In the ease of my own house, there arc - two things insisted upon: the milk must r be good, and it must be delivered no; | later than (1 a.in. In order to gain these . | points I have to change my milkman repeatedly, and 1 have been able to do iso without any palavering or notifying ■(this, that, or the other department. This privilege of being aide to buy asi ; suits personal requirements is one which must be retained in any scheme of dc (livery, ami, failing in this essential, the I block system, if for no other reason, i-.' foredoomed to failure despite the boom-1 ling of its authors. There is further in the proposal not 1 a little of the element of triple brass 1 (check in so far as it denies the publi.-j I the right to spend its money as and: | where it pleases. The writer will tryj |to block any system which seeks to' curtail his rights in the direction of! spending his own money in any legitimate way, and owing neither grocer. ( butcher, baker, nor milkman, is ready; to put up a stiff tight against any linii-J tation of his freedom in that regard.- I I am, etc., THISTLE. I Christchurch, 2/3/ I*.