CONTROL OF MILK SUPPLY
GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION SOUGHT. AUCKLAND, May 20. On the ground that any request for Government intervention must come from the City Council, the Prime Minister (Mr G. W. Forbes) to-day told a deputation representing milk vendors to place before the council their proposal to set up under the Board of Trade Act a city milk control board. A member of the deputation said he thought the cost of distribution in Auckland was 3d or 4d per gallon more than in Wellington. In one street of 110 houses 34 carts delivered milk. The Prime Minister commented generally that it was the consumer who complained of the distribution costs. He recognised that competition sometimes was ■fcisteful and even destructive, but it existed in all businesses, and could not be eliminated. If there could be a combination whereby it was agreed that there be one milk vendor, no doubt it would be in the consumers’ interest. If the City Council applied for extended powers to control the milk supply, the Government would sympathetically consider it.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 76
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175CONTROL OF MILK SUPPLY Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 76
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