THE MILK PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 162, 28 March 1918, Page 6

THE MILK PROBLEM

i Sir,—The council canuot claim to have over-hurried their preparation ot the report, and if the "piffle" .they . liave ottered is the best they can pro--1 duce their case is a bad one. To begin with, they allege concert or opposition on the part of the vendors.. If they had known enough to use; the word "concert" instead of. "conjunction" their meaning wojild have been, dearer. If, on the other hand, _ the. •vendors had not worked in "conjunction" with the staff, the milk could have been there to' this day, as the. staff had no knowledge of the business iin any shape or form. This beginning 1 could have been left out greatly to the advantage of the report, as it showed. - bias and consequently unfitness of thetribunal to deal with the stupendous, ' problem on the broad lines so essential .to ultimate success. My experience ot ' the committee's methods goes further : in proof of the charge of unfitness. Ine 'taking of my evidence was left to i Councillor Norwood. I did not come before the committee, but before one. member. True, shorthand notes vera taken, and these would go before .the., committee, but notes would be utterly valueless in the way the evidence was. called. Councillor Norwood had preconceived ideas, and, as far as lie could work it, my evidence had to hb those ideas. The work of the committee is a frame-up, and the result pur© -piffle."-! am,