LESS RAW MILK FOR WANGANUI

Chronicle (Levin), 16 March 1946, Page 7

LESS RAW MILK FOR WANGANUI

UNFASTEURISED SUPPLY CUT BY DEPARTMENT WANGANUI, xMarch 12. Only tlie niglit's liiilk from regi.stercd fnrni.s is to !>e made available to the luiblie of Wanganui as raw niilk iu future, the remainder of the supply being pasteurised. Tiiis instruetion was gi\ en yesterday by the Director of Milk Marketing, Mr. H. A. innes, wlieu visiting Wanganui. This nieans that only 55 per cent. oi' the deiuan^l can be uiet, tlie delieit Ijeiug made up wrrli pasteunsed imlk, explained IMr. I). It. Robbins, president of the Wanganui Milk Yendors' Associatiou, to-(lay. ]\Ir. Robbins described tlie ruling as unfortunate, but he added that thc public could do little al;out it. Thi. number of registered farms in Ihe district was limited and there was no possibility. of increasing' the supply from further afield. When Mr. Innes and another departmental ofticer, Mr. W. A. Cowell, were at Wanganui yesterday, they met senior offieers of the Wanganui Oity Council aud put forward another proposal for reorganisation of the city's milk supply which has been under eon sideratiou for many nionths. It is understood that this proposal is slightly difl'erent from that adopted by the council early in Deccmber and will probably call for further deliberatious when the council meets again next week. Mr. Innes left to-rlay for Rotorua in eonipany with Mr. Cowell, and is ex peeted to •return to Wanganui in about a uionth to see what tlie council thinks of the new proposal.' Tliree months ago Mr. Innes met the council to put forward a suggestion that the council should ask the Govern ment. to assume complete control of thc central milk depot at Wanganui without anv finaneial liabilitv to the council, and that it should appoint a board of management with City Council representation to niu the depot as a public utilitv.