Milk
Sir, —Cle_.ly the bulk of the milk sold in Christchurch for a significant period of the year does not comply with the regulations. Clearly it is the duty of the Department of Health, not the Department of Agriculture (to which Mr McKay tries to “pass the the buck”) to pro-1
secute what you rightly term the “milk offenders.” If the regulations are too harsh, it is the Government’s clear duty to modify them, and if prosecution inflicts hardship, only then is it time to assist producers. But, as the regulations now stand, the Minister, in suspending prosecutions arbit .ily, clearly shows disregard for the health of babies and old people. The most frightening development in the world today is the growing disrespect, in many countries, for the rule of law. The bending of the legal machinery, instead of applying the democratic process of modifying the law itself, must be nipped in the bud here. — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. February 8, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 12
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