CITY'S MILK POLICY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 181, 26 April 1919, Page 10

CITY'S MILK POLICY

<5 : — STATEMENTS BY COUNCILLOR BENNETT. •- Speaking at Hataitai the other night, Councillor W. H. Bennett (a member of the City Council's 51111 c Committee) touched upon developments that might be expected in tho future. He said that tho committee had entered into the present scheme with a full determination to carry it through. Tho country station at Otalri must be enlarged and adequately equipped with plant so that the milk' could be treated as soon as it left the'farms. _ He believed that the railway authorities would contribute to the success of tho business by meeting tho request of the committee for improved facilities for transit. "If at any time in tho summer our supply exceeds tho demand," ho continued, "then wo can at our country station convert tho surplus into butter and cheese. With facilities for better distribution we shall he able to get these products to the citizens at a fair price. We believo that during tho two years that the vendors aro in possession of the work of distribution many changes will tako place, and that at tho end-of that time it may bo possible to servo milk to the public in paper containers or bottles. At present these are not to b» had in sufficient quantities. .Tn the meantime, tho Milk Committee wants the wholehearted support of the citizens, for- its only desire is. to get tho very best article ■to tho public. "I might state that tho committee was greatly pleased and encouraged when it received from England about thrco or four weeks after its report had been published, the report of a committeo set up in the Old Land to consider tho samo question. Tho two reports were so much alike that they-might have been written by the same psrscn. This showed that the evidence we had taken, and the conclusjons we had arrived at w.ero along the right lines. I believe wc shall be the first to get a satisfactory conclusion, and already wo have inquiries from Australia and even -America about how wc are getting on. Wo have been hampered owing to the war as regards working plant, and especially cans, and shall have to increase both our boiler and engine power at tho mailt station."