THE MILK SCHEME

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 231, 24 June 1919, Page 6

THE MILK SCHEME

r ■ ——*- . ' Committee and vendors'in ! . ~ j, / LINE. r Councillor C. B. .Norwood was in the happy .position yesterday of heing able to announce lo the Milk Committee that 1 ' all. the differences ■''between the ; <:nmicil ! and the vendor.? had at last been smoothl ed away, and settled to the satisfaction : of everyone concerned.. ,The . different : groups of vendors (holding allegiaiieo to i the different area companies) would Have '' the "opportunity to. sign up on' Wednea- : A.dav; and it would come before the coun- ■ ' cil* for confirmation on Thursday evening. The settlement- cleared the way to j the introduction of the Mock system of | ■ delivery;! the most obvious way of effecting economies at the city end of the ' business! "As far as. possible the blocks j . had been adjusted so ns to mako as i • little alteration as possible in present i arrangements. . That was to say, (hat in |\ many; instances a man covering- a cer- | tain ami'and Inlawing it and its people . v.'diiia 'Be" retained in the block eov- | ering that'area—a mutual advantage to ' tile scheme and the.ptfblic., It might he ! that when tho scheme was initiated there ' : would be minor hitches, but those would disappear as' the machine began to work ■ smoothly. rt; The department would wel- | ' come > inquiries and consider carefully i jßll'complnint«. • The change would pro!}- ! ably be made at the end of the v.-eelc. i Forty', individual vendors Vere tornpriSed'Vin,., the five comnanies who were J ■ being', entrusted with the milk delivery of't^e,'city,?.and all hiid"come: into the ! , agreftteuj:,'.'. Under the new arrangement !.-• I milk o Tvas to l>e. supplied to the vendors at'. such"' a ' price as would allow them 7d.' per" gallon- to cover ''the expenses of ! : - delivering and to leave a fair margin of j profit.