MILK SUPPLY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19063, 27 July 1927, Page 11

MILK SUPPLY.

TO THE EDITOR 07 THE PRESS. Sir, —A few days ago I had the pleasure of discussing "Milk problems" with one of the leading producers of North Canterbury, when he assured me that in order to allow the producer to comply with the very essential requirements outlined by his' Worship the Mayor and Councillor Carr, when addressing a meeting of dairymen recently as to the extreme care necessary to every detail concerning the production and extraction of milk on the farms, it was absolutely imperative that the producer should be paid not less than one shilling per gall i all the year round. He informed the writer that he had recently been approached by Mr H. Bliss, who, he added, would appear to have given the subject much careful thought, with what he (the producer) considered was a most admirable scheme, and which, if adopted by the Milk Supply Committee of the City Council, would, in his opinion, overcome practically the whole of the disadvantages at present existing, and place the industry upon a thoroughly concrete and satisfactory foundation, and at the same time do away with the over-high distribution costs of the vendors, and also the bugbear of producers and vendors, viz., "bad debts." At the present time,. I can readily understand the utterly chaotic condition of the milk business, due undoubtedly to the lack of proper businesslike methods of those concerned therewith, which must eat up at least 50 per cent, of their earnings. That a large majority of those in the trade are simply paying the price of ineptitude, and are too confused to realise it, I' am thoroughly convinced, and therefore I would suggest'that the sooner Mr Bliss places his scheme before the Council's Milk Supply Committee, when—if it is as stated by the producer referred to, who is a particularly level headed man of business —it should prove a most welcome means of extricating both the producer and vendor from the maze of muddlement which at present time unfortunately appears to surround them. I am aware of the fact that a o ten years ago Mr Bliss worked earnestly and long for the adoption of the ( block system, but was-atthe t,me-T thwarted by vested mtßrests and g , apathy. Let us hope that after a lapse of so many years his efforts w m with more earnest consideration y powers that be.— AYLOE Papanui, July 25th. J