REJECTED MILK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 66, 11 December 1907, Page 2

REJECTED MILK.

AGREEMENT AMONG FACTORIES. RIGID ENFORCEMENT PROMISED. It has frequently bean urged that milk rejected at one factory for its bad quality

Sf rejected at all othors < and «"»• l lavo u . ve " eo»P SO far as to suggest jr. q'" la ke sucli a custom compulsory. !>!,«' .8 i u Government expert, appears to havo succeeded in effecting an agreeiiiont on the matter among some of the Taranaki factory directors, which may justly m! l- a . S . COO P'" Commenting on the visit of Mr Singleton to Tariinaki, and his mission, the ' Waimate Witness" says:— Considerable improvement is likely to result Irom tho arrangement arrived at between rival factories in reference to rejected milk, and it now only rests with the factory managers to use with discretion the power winch has been given them to bring about tho desired reform in the milk supply. Besides getting tho factories to worx on an equal basis and appealing to dairy' farmers to observe the greatest possible cleanliness. Mr. bingleton has not neglected to give advice to factory managers and assistants, in the best way of treating suppliers. He held a private conference at the Manaia.Town Jlall on Thursday evening; and there were about oO factory workers present, Mr. J. U Dea, manager to the Piharna Company, iVS j.'l '' io c ' la '!°- r -. Singleton counselled tho managers not to bo too severe on suppliers; not to be too rigid with the terme or the agreement. The enforcement of tho arrangement would mean that if a man was turned away with his milk from one factory ho would not have a chance of disposing of it elsewhere.. That would be a severe-hard-ship, and until tho dairymen were thoroughly.: educated up to the new position, they deserved to bo treated with some le'niency. Greater good could, in his opinion, be accomplished by kindness than by harshness. livery encouragement should be given to. suppliers to raise the condition of.theiimilk. "Several of those present 'stated, that, when they had approached suppliers they Had not always been treatod with the cordiality which, under the circumstances, they might have expected, and consequently, tho polios of reasoning with those bringing along doubt ful milk was out of favour. A numjier rt. experiences were, cited as indicating the'seir sitivonoss of the dairyman." ,