PURE MILK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1799, 3 July 1906, Page 3

PURE MILK.

IMPOitfAS? DEPUTATION.

(Fit 1 Phi* Association.) • • }. ,; j i Auokland, last night. A deputation from the Auckland Agricultural an! Pastoral Association waited on the Mayor at the Municipal Chambers this morn in;, with, a request for the co-operation-of the Auckland City Council in providing a trophy or prizes in connection with ih»,.proposed cumpetition amongst milk suppliers, one object being an improvement ii the conditions .under which the City is supplied with milk. The deputation pointed out that the desire of the Association nos to arouse healthy public ■*^!?3?rest'Wtyquestion of the milk supply, so as to ensure an-absolutely satisfactory state of' aflat* wheroby the supply of -milk could be guraritecd pure. The Mayor.said that by taking advantage of the provisions of Section 346 of the Municipal Corporation Act they might obtain powerfrom the Governor in Coun-

cil-to make regulations- for the securing % s and cleanliness of milk shops, and of milk : vessels, and for proscribing precautions to jbe taken in protecting milk against in- : fection or contamination, and milk in ' cases where the public health would likely |be endangered, Application would be ,_£.jju,ade to the Governor-in Council forthwith, and in due course regulations would be brought into operation. “In this connection it may be pointed out,’-’ Said His Worship, “ that the - Govcrnor-in-Council may sec fit, instead of authorising the Council to make such regulations for merely local requirements, j,q exorcise the power vested in him by the same section, and' to make the regulations imposed applicable to all portions of the

colony.” Intelligent public opinion was required to be aroused as to the necessity for extreme cnie and eleqnliucss in tije Keeping of lmltyin private liqqsey. ' Hie \Vurshi, tpidcrtqok to bring the matter before tic Council,