PURE MILK.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1935, 18 December 1913, Page 5

PURE MILK.

! CLEAIiJXC-IIOI'SE WAITED. , ' . Tho ■ obvipufiljvdesii'nble thing that >; there should be a" more effective inspw-'-lion of- milk for domestic supply 'Unit! is the case at present cones into t)ic focus <if the public eye almost peremikll.v. It came .forward yesterday .ill a nomeivhat nev';l form, when Messrs; Ward, Strand, and Clifford, represent-.' ing this Wdiioaton .Dairy Farmers' Association, waited on the Abattoirs, Milk Supply, au:f Pit'ili; llcniiii Cfmimittee of tin t (in 1, urging that body to push forward with tile eroctito;. of a clearing-house, through which :t!i tho milk arriving by train would have to pass before it was sold io the public; Tho deputation stated that their as-' sociatitm represented (fairy 'farmers win supplied 80 per cent, of the milk consumed in Wellington. About 90 pel: edit, of tlie total quantity was brought by rail from the country, and . tumtc t'iierol'ore havo to .pass through the clearing-house, and he subject to the tests imposed there. Having got that far, it would not be a very difficult mat-. ti;>r to deal with the remaining 10 .in •jont. that was produced in tho suburbs Tho deputation was assured that tin committee .was anxious to ,go on wit!; ■the work, and were pleased to leave llmt tho dairy farmers themselves favoured the clearing-house prnpusiil. ■Speaking on the matter after tin; mooting, the chairman of the commit-: tee- (Mr. .Jwmes Godbcr) said that il>if clearing-house proposal had now beet before the public for five or six years.: and the.v were still no Inn her I'.nyarc than they were then. I've conuuiU«: had been keenly desirous of doing all it could f:> bring about:- a better and sln-el-cr inspection of milk for domestic sup; ply tliini has been the ease in the past-: the duties -of the inspector of tho Agricultural Department concluded at the fiiim. The Health Department's inspectors were in and out in their work though he must say that since the nut: break of smallpox more attention 'lint been given to the inspection «f milk ir the cHv. - But here was tho idea whirl would brinn 90 per rent, of the mill: used in Wellington to one place, where any exantinatmn could be made vritlease, and should them be eoniamliia; ition or adulteration the -source ei>uk; be traced. "We had it all very.nicely arranged," said Mr. (lodl'.er, "in th<, ivill we presented to the 1910 Parliameirduring tho last Government, but the;: went- and struck out the clause giyiiii. ■the C'itv Council control of ihe clearing! house, which absolutely killed the who!-' thing as far ns we were cmimmHl, The clause struck -out made the council con trol quite nugatory, and we lent inter est. \V«. however, intend to revive tw mens-jre again next year. Tins Govern meat will, 1 ihiuk, do tho right thing.