TAIHAPE MILK SUPPLY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 21 July 1917, Page 4

TAIHAPE MILK SUPPLY.

At the Borough Council meeting last night, after the minutes of the special meeting were confirmed, His Worship the Maycjf explained that. one of the subjects dealt with at that meeting was the question of the supply of milk for the Borough. He said he had been one of the committee appointed to go into the matter, but regretted to say they could not make any arrangements whatever. The manager of the Ohutu factory went to all the suppliers, but was unable to get any quantity worth having. The most that he could get was a promise of seven gallons a day, and he would to go round all the~"roads and collect it himself. It seemed to him to be practically impossible to do any good. Cr. Champion agreed that it was no good if they could not do better than that.

The Mayor said there were one or two men who could have supplied milk. One man said he could supply the milk, but owing to labour conditons if he started he would never know w.-ien he would be left in the lurch, and told to milk the cows himself. In consequence of this he would not undertake it, A councillor remarked that in a case of this kind labour ought to be made compulsory.

The Mayor said that was afl very well. If a man was told to go and fight for his country he would have to go and fight. He did not see v-hy the same compulsion should not apply in a case like this. It was a sad commentary on our civilisation that the only thing that could be made compulsory was to take life, not to preserve it. He believed, however, that a Mr. Crawford had arranged to supply milk, and if that was so, the case would be met.