Auckland Milk Supplies.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2090, 29 March 1898, Page 2

Auckland Milk Supplies.

At last a definite step has been taken in the direction of an enquiry into the system of dairying ia connection with Auckland eity and suburban milk supply. We do not admire the- constitution of the conference, having little faith in the Auckland City Council of which it will be composed, with the addition of one delegate from each of the outside districts. The essence of good dairying consists in the deanliness of the conditions under which ; the business is carried-on If there is one characteristic more outstanding than another in the City Council’s .conduct of municipal affairs it is their absolute indifference to that desirable Equality. Auckland is notoriously one of the dirtiest cities ip the colonies. The lavatory in Wellesley Street, just ; below the Opera House, for example, may be set down as one of the foulest, most ill-regulated, disease-distributers in New Zeal md. In its way it is an underground monument, if such a contradiction in terms is permissible, ■ to the administrative incapacity of the : Auckland City Council. In adminis- : trative ability one or two members on our much abused local Town Board ciuld give these City Councillors fifty points in a hundred and a handsome beating. We think credit is due to the t Star’ for tbe independent stand it is making in this matter of dairy reform. As that journal poin .s out what, it is notorious, may be seen daily in Auckland, namely, dairy cows drinking from polluted streams, was the admitted source of the recent outbreak of typhoid in the township of Sexton, Victoria, which prostrated one sixth of the people. Now that the Council has heon convicted of not even knowing their duties and responsibilities in connection with moving in ft matter affecting the health of the whole community, perhaps we may hear of a little more energy being infused into their movements at "the forthcoming conference.