MILK INSPECTION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1333, 23 May 1905, Page 2

MILK INSPECTION

to the editor Sir,—Kindly allow me a sinsll space in yonr paper ro milk inspection, which is tho latest news of tho day, as wo have had many letters ro police, riots, etc, Your correspondent" Mater" wants 10 know which inspector is supposed to uiako an inßpeoiion of dairies, etc Well," Mater,'' not tho Sanitary Inspector, for various reasons-bccan.se, for instance, ho may just have br-on looking at a dirty back yard, or a drain, or perhaps the other place, or maybe a soarlot fever case, If' "Mater" is anxious to know who tho milk inspector is, ho is the Government Dairy Inspector for the Ohiuemuri district, and was out hero this afternoon on his usual rounds of inspection. I met him to-doy, and asked after things, etc, and ho said that everything was ''O.K." " Mator," you aro wrong when 7ou say that milk hero is dearer than iu Anokland, because on Monday last I was iu Auckland, and tho price was fourpenoo a quart, and hard to got at that price, Now," Mater," you talk about protecting our dear infants' lives. Do you over thins of the mauv kinds of food yon try for baby (uot milk] which nearly kills thorn, and all sorts of patents ? For instanos, ono day you will givo it a patont food, and it makos the poor littlo dear sick. Anothor day tinned milk, which is just ns bad, And another day-say washing day-when dear little b»by is out in tho dirty yard while you are at the washtubs, perhaps eating dirt or old rags, while Mrs So-and-So is having a good old tolls to you over the fence about " Oh, Mrs So-and-So, do you' know that Miss —is going 10 get married,' 1 and tho poor baby still having a good feed. Aud thon mater thinks of tho baby and runs aud picks him up, with the words in hormouth,"Oh, you dirty littlo UW, Good morning, Mrs So-aud-rM f must go, bocaufo Jack will be home soon,'' And then poor baby gets a drink of cow's milk to wash tho dirt down, and it makes bira rick,' and mater tolls Jack it mußt be thß oow'b milk, forgetting about MrSo-and. So's tnlk, and perhaps a dirty milk jug. s 0 the poor old milkman gets all the Maine -I am, etc., Todkg Mabribd Man,