CLEARING HOUSE FOB MILK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2919, 3 November 1916, Page 10

CLEARING HOUSE FOB MILK

URGENT REQUEST FROM DAIRY FARMERS AND VENDORS. A joint deputation of tho Dairy Fanners' Association and the Milk Vendors' Association waited on tho City Council last evening to urge tho council to proceed with the erection of a clearing houso for milk. Air. T. Ward (secretary of the Dairy Farmers' Association) urged the council to proceed at once with the crection of tho proposed clearing house. The question of a pure milk supply was one that was worthy of great attention. It was really a pressing matter, and something must be done. Time went on and on, and nothing was done. There had been a great number of prosecutions, and many more were pending, through the milk not being up to the standard, dirty or adulterated, but all that would not stop one gallon of such milk coming into Wellington for human consumption. . The vendors say they sell the milk as received from the farmers, and the farmers say that they send in only pure milk. A clearing house was the only remedy for the present unsatisfactory state of affairs.

Mr. A. ,T. Petherick (secretary of the Vendors' Association) said that his association only agreed to the proposal on the condition that all milk sold in tlie city should pass through tho clearing house. It had been suggested that there may be special, licenses granted to milk companies, hut his association was distinctly against any other suggestion but the 1 one clearing liouse. He advocated that the control of the clearing house should be a joint one of the City Council, the Farmers' Association and the Vendors' Association, which he thought, would give tho utmost satisfaction. Prosecutions were pending in increasing numbers, but vendors were not responsible for many charges brought against them. They had been brought to .agree to the clearing house proposal. more by necessity than by inclination, but would add their voices to the request that the work be commenced as early as possible.

In answer to questions Mr. Ward said he favoured triple eontrol, and said that sealed cans would not pet over the milk troubles which were 'occupying the attention of the Court lately.