THE MILK QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 273, 7 August 1918, Page 6

THE MILK QUESTION

Sir—The psychological moment has arrived for the word of warning necessaryto steady the Milk Committee in its headlong rush for-I suppose he reader will think I am going to refer to the improvement of the city's milk. suppl). Oh no The committee is out for tame or notoriety, and it is bound to win itthat is, the latter. They have the oity on the verge of taking over the iresh Food Co.'s premises and plant, iney cannot advance one solitary reason tor ■the selection. The proper course would have been to rent the use of the place for tho term of the experimental period, nud elaborate their plana as they went alon" Save they not a vision of ■£20,000 to squander, and the jpimons ot every alleged authority from Mewart Island to the North Cape to make a pretty frock to clothe that vision with? Yes, and a. committee of go-called vendors to bear the blame when <he expenditure turns out to have been a fiasco, and quite unpalatable 'to the consumers, who are not being considered. Dixon Street is, for the pnrpose, as far from the source of supply as any other part of Wellington, and, though the centre of a congested area, is not the centre of Wellington. This phase of the proposal affects it in throe ways—the initial cost, tho running cost, and -he facility for expansion, lluch more may bo said, but tho above is the immediate and most pressing consideration.—l am, etc.. HENRY BODLEY. July 31.

Sir,—H: certainly is strange that Sir. Henry Bodley should claim to bo the author of the milk scheme now adopted by the comiei], and stranger still that since its adoption lie should write that lie cannot 'take it seriously. He surely cannot l>e serious when he makes liis charge concerning the scheme that "the. committee did not menn what they said, wid don't intend 'to carry it out," as it infers that a body of business men deliberately wasted a very great deal of their own time. Since Mr. Bodley says he i* the parent of the scheme which the council after two years' deliberation has adopted, it would appear that a better one cannot 1)6 evolved, and the council as well as the public is surely entitled to expect his iipsistanee in carrying il out. It v.as lo suggest the giving of that assistunco that I wrote you, crediting Wr. Bodley with some, knowledge of this subject, and my object will Imvn been attained if even now it is forthcoming; or a eood reason given for its being withhold.

Unlike Mr. Bodley," the use of printer's ink is no hobby of mine, so T leave him with the suggestion that while on this subject at any rate ho discontinues the use of vitriol in his ink.—T am, etc., G. A. T.