MILK VENDORS’ UNION.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 402, 29 April 1902, Page 3

MILK VENDORS’ UNION.

(To the Editor oi the Times.) Sir —For the information of .the local vendors of milk you might reprint, the following from a Christchurch paper :—Mr J. Knott, of the Christchurch Dairy Company is taking up the question of forming all the milkt vendors of Christchurch into a cooperative company, and it is understood that he intends to bring his scheme before a meeting of dairymen on Thursday evening, 'there are now some 300 -persons employed in delivering milk in Christchurch, whereas if the work was done systematically onetenth of the number of carts now in use would suffice. Mr Knott’s idea is that the dairymen should retain their farms and cows, and devote their attention solely, to the production of milk for sale to the company, the company could afford; he says,; to pay 6d per gallon lor the milk, which, without the cost of distribution, losses on account, etc., would pay the dairymen hotter than the Is per ga - lou he now gets from his customers The good-will oi the milk runs should he allowed for by means of paid-up shares in the company, and Mr Knott s idea is tiiat dairymen should subscribe the whole Of tlui capital employed so •is to keep the business entirely in their own hands, the same as is done

under the butter and cheese factory system. The men at present in distributing the milk should lw\e the first preference for employment under the company. The company should also employ an inspector of their own, so as to ensure that the milk supply was pure and clean. The company should' have at least two receiving stations, where the dairymen would deliver the milk and where it would be cleansed, and if necessary, pas eurised •Hid cooled. The company would have to undertake the distribution throughout city and suburbs. With two men to each cart and a boy to mind the horse, the milk now consumed m the city, could, Mr Knott considers be delivered with thirty carts as there would be no time wasted on the rounds. Mr Knott has prepared a statement to show how the business would approximately work out, and is confident that the scheme is profitable anu practicable. —1 am, etc., OBSERVEIv