HOW DELIVER IT?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1241, 25 September 1911, Page 6

HOW DELIVER IT?

THE CITY'S MILK. PKOTBST BY TWO VENDORS. Two city vendors of milk have called at Tub Dominion- office to express themselves on tho City Council's proposals regarding the delivering of the city's milk supply. "We hold," said one, "that the system at present in vogue is a better system than the one which would come into being under the council's proposals." The present system thsy. outlined as follows :--Milk arrives 'at 'Lambton railway station at about 8.30 every,evening. It is then taken delivery of by the vendors and removed to their dairies, where it is stored. The- men start work at about 3.30 nexi moraine delivering tbia milk, and finish the delivery about 7 o clock. The .second delivery of milk arrives at Te ■Aro railway station at 9.20 a.m. It is put on to tho delivery carts and immediately delivered. The milk, comes from Upper Hiitt, Wallaceville, Silverstreani, Loner Hutt, etc. The milk which reaches Lambton Station at about 8.30 in th« evening is that which is drawn from the cows the same afternoon. .The milk which gets to Te Aro Station, at 9.20 a.m. is the morning's milk. "Boujdily speaking," proceeded the vendor, ."me daily consumption is 4500 gallons. The biggest quantity of that comes into the.stations in 5-gallon cans. Who on earth is going to inspect all that milk? Supposing that tho rcntinil appointed sufficient inspectors to deal with all tho milk. thoroughly, and a samplo from every can were taken, the samples would then have to be snnt to an analyst, and while, ho analysed nearly one thousand samples Wellington's daily output would bo waiting at the depot. Can anyone by any stretch of imagination claim that the milk would bo! benefited by the delay or that' tho proposed system would be a quicker way than the present of getting the milk from the cow to the consumer? "At the present time all milk vendors aro bound to register, which shows that there would bo no advantago in us having to go to tho depot. If the vendors' carts p.nd premises are not panitary. why does the council register them? Also, we aro subject to, inspection, by the Health Department. ■ And while tho proposals are not: going to , do any good to tho public, tli-oy are going to be a nuisanco to »?. Wellington is getting better work throujrli tha private business system than it would through the proposed system. "Tiie proposals say that all milk should be delivered within four hoars of ths termination of tho time of milking (in certain months). That is impossible. JCight milk is not now delivered till the next morning,, anil can't possibly be. Will the milkmen have to throw away half tlie product of their cows? Perhaps we will .have to get a now kind of cow! Surely the existing kind is illegal under tho Act!"