WATERED MILK IS NOT ACCIDENTAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 13

WATERED MILK IS NOT ACCIDENTAL

GREATER PENALTY WANTED MILK VENDOR’S OPINION 14 1 would like to see the penalties for watered milk in Auckland increased, because 90 per cent, of the watered milk is not accidental,” declared Mr. T. H. Chapman, in an address to members of the Auckland Rotary Club yesterday. "VCR. CHAPMAN explained, however, A that during recent years the policy of the Health Department had been in the direction of correction rather than penalty when any irregularity in H.he supply of milk was discovered. It was estimated by the speaker that the capital involved in Auckland’s daily milk suonly approximated £1,010,000. The city required at least 10,000 gallons of milk daily, which, at two gallons a cow, would require 5,000 cows. Valued at £l2 each the cows would be worth £60,000. Ten thousand acres to run the cows, at £ S an acre, was an extra £BO,OOO. while the plant and property in the city involved a capital of approximately £150,000.

Because of the happy conditions under which the Auckland milk supply was secured, he believed that the Government laboratories could not detect more than half a dozen samples of rnilk a year containing tubercular infection.

The most crying need which Mr. Chapman perceived was the education of the people, particularly in workers’ homes, to aji appreciation of food values and to the habit of placing food not in the most convenient place in the house, but in the spot where it would be kept pure and cool.