MUNICIPAL MILK
Ml?,. H. A. WARD APPOINTED ASSISTANT MANAGER,
Councillor 0. B. Norwood, chairman of the Milk Committee of tho City. Council, announced yesterday that Mr. H. A. Ward had been appointed assistant manager of the City Council's milk distribution system, and would take up-his duties' forthwith. The salary is £500 per annum. Mr. Norwood said that the committee was of the opinion that it had been fortunate in securing one in whom the public would have every confidence, as he was a' man used to responsibility, and knew the milk trade from A to Z. Mr. Ward was formerly a dairy and stock inspector in the Agricultural Department, and left tho Public Service in 1912 to become manager of the Wellington Dairy Farmers' Association at the Hutt, which had much to owe to Mr. I Ward for its success. It will be remembered by those who , have follow? Ed the milk trail through.these columns that Mr. Ward frequently represented the dairy farmers at confereices with the 'City Council a year or more ago, when tho council endeavoured to 6b-' tain milk at a reasonable price and in its natural condition at a time when neither of those- conditions could be relied-upon. When tho council advertised for a manager at the time it intended to handle tho city's milk at the little brick ehed near the Thorndon railway station, ten months ago, , Mr. Ward'was an applicant for the position allotted to Mr. Oliver (who has been retained in the council's service ever since). <
Tho position of assistant manager carries with it all those duties concerning the receipt of tho milk from the farmers and its distribution _to the vendors from tho central clearing station in Dixon Street (formerly tho premises of the Fresh Food and Ice Company). Later a manager will be appointed, whoso duties, it is under-. stood, will embrace the financial side; of the big-business the City Council is, undertaking, and'effect all the economies possiblo under present, and later, under normal conditions (which work will include the setting up of a plant for making paper containers out of, wood pulp, in which the milk will be distributed (sealed) to tho council .« many client?. It is Mr. Ward who w. 1 come into direct contact with both. farmers and vendors. :
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 296, 3 September 1918, Page 4
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381MUNICIPAL MILK Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 296, 3 September 1918, Page 4
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