CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

MILK ZONING.

(To the Editor.) Allow me a little of your space to f point out a few glaring points of tie i milk zoning scheme, not «=o much the actual scheme as the serv ice. The delivery round by area is done 3>v a dirty-looking van and the vendor is not a fine example of cleanliness by any means. The Milk Council eay -we have a choice of milk, but do we get it! A specialist advised special baby milk for our baby and accordingly we" asked for it. Sometimes we get it and other times we get pasteurised milk. At times the bottles are 60 badly cracked that when I arise at 6 a.m. the bottle is nearly half-empty. Now where are the inspectors, etc., who are supposed to keep a chack on these things* Imagine the danger of a splinter of ~i--| from these cracked bottles, if one should {ret into the baby's milk. Then again, this same vendor leaves the ■bottles in the street from one morningwj till the next, for the convenience of the local cats and dogs. Milk for. infants is ,put into these bottles. fc this a sample of the service the Milk Council allow us by zoning tlie rounds? Then is tlie milk fresh? If so, why after being scalded at 5.30 a.m. is it thick sour jelly at five o'clock tlie following morning. Tlie powers that be speak about the malnutrition of young children.* Is it any wonder when milk and bottles as I have mentioned are used in an infant's early life, and our only alternative is to carry tlie milk from a dairy, which cannot always 'be done? BABY MILK,. .

I The secretary of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, Mr. X. R. Chapman, said that the council had assured consumers that it would see that vendors supplied them with the highest quality milk, whether in loose or bottled form. Consumers could also have special babv milk, and a vendor must supply it when required. The particular complaint made would he immediately investigated. The council would he only too glad to inquire into, and put rijrht, any complaints in regard to quality, or service, under zoning.—Ed.