THE BLOCK SYSTEM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 178, 23 April 1919, Page 3

THE BLOCK SYSTEM

.FOR MILK DISTRIBUTION IN . WELLINGTON. Gradually the original scheme of milk distribution originated by the City Coun> cil's Milk Committee is being brought into operation. It was not considered advisable to introduce the block system at tho time the council commenced to huy tho milk on behalf of the vendors, hut having got the station into working order tho committee then'decided to apply tho principle of. block distribution In order to prevent the economically unsound overlapping which has ruled in tho past. To that end the committee circularised the -vendors recently inviting them to apply for blocks either individually or in groups covering blocks of a practicable size, which could bo worked economically under the system. To such applicant licenses will be issued later, under the War Regulation. l !, and no one without such a license will have the right to vend or'sell milk within tho "bounds of the city. The applications closed on Monday, and Councillor C. B. Norwood,, chairman of the Milk Committee, stated yesterday that all the vendors, with tho exception of two, had responded. .Of these some wero .not in order, and' would have to be reviewed, but these did not represent a very large proportion of the total milk supply. Even assuming-that the applications mentioned were designedly out of order, as was quite possible, the matter would only he a serious one to the applicants, and not to the council. .As a final effort to secure the honest co-operation of -the vendors, he was pleased with the result. He trusted, however, that the applications which were not in order were the result of errors on the part ot those concerned, and that committoa would allow them to he amended. Otherwise they could not be included in the geueral scheme of distribution,