WHY A MILK TRUST?

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 6

WHY A MILK TRUST?

Sir,—"No Monopoly" wants fo know why the City Council should have a monopoly of (he milk supply of this city. Well, the necessity for it is this:— (1) That with very few exceptions all the milk vendors have been convicted and heavilv fined for soiling adulterated milk, dirty milk, or milk below the Health Department's standard. Now that's putting it very mildly. (2) By the above methods, to say nothing of the shortage in measure, a simple trick {I've yet to meet the citizen who measures his quantity), the public are yearly robbed of thousands of ponnis. , . (3)' The milk mentioned in paragraph (1) has been used by the public for infants, the sick, and even the dying. (4) One of the last convictions Ljead of was a milk 5 vendor who was caught by the inspector running around with, to put it figuratively, a tin of condensed milk in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. . (5) There is no greater carrier of disease than milk, especially Wellington milk. (6) I have had milk left at my door on a Sundav morning. which was sour by 10.30. * (7) ;The nutilie will welcome a supply of pure milk and will have no oualms of conscience in' parting with vendors who have "dealt with them" for sonic years. (8) The ?oo;lwill of a milk vendor is not of much value. I. might set my milk from Smith this week and change to Brr.wn the next. (9) There are about twenty houses in the street in which I reside, and mi k carts start about. 3.30 and continue making sleep'impossible till about 5.30. The.ro must be about seven' or eight of them, whereas under the council s block system on» could do the lot. There are many more reasons, but your space is valuable. I think the above reasons will do to «m etc.,