DELIVERY OF MILK.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1922, Page 6

DELIVERY OF MILK.

BOTTLES TO BE USED. SCHEME FOR WELLINGTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March 17. At last night’s meeting of the City Council the milk committee recommended that the necessary authority be granted to the committee to proceed with the delivery of milk in bottles as from July 8, 1922. The estimated' cost of providing the necessary plant and equipment and structural alterations to the present premises is £21,600. Mr. Norwood, chairman of the milk committee, said that he had concluded on overwhelming evidence that there was only one way of distributing milk, and that was in bottles. He said that when all accounts were paid at the end of the month they would have a cash balance of £21,500. Their own loan was £52,000, so that their fixed assets were represented at £30,500, represented in the milk station in Dixon Street, and its ramifications and the country station. No tenders had been received for the distribution of milk,, so they must take on the work of distribution themselves. The extra expense of bottling the milk would be met by the adoption of the coupon system. Councillor Forsyth said he thought the £21,000 would probably be absorbed when the existing liabilities were met and paid, and moved that the report be referred back.

Councillor Burns seconded the amendment, as the scheme would be too much of a financial strain on the city. He said the astounding thing in the report was that the bottles were to be bought in America when English bottles had been quoted cheaper. Mr. Norwood explained that the American price was here, the English price f.0.b., England. Councillor Chapman supported the report. He said the system assured purity and full measure. The Mayor said the council had been positively driven into establishing the municipal milk scheme, as the milk producers were dissatisfied with the vendors, so the council found it necessary to go on. The council was committed to the scheme and must move forward. The scheme was being watched with interest by countries overseas. After discussion, the amendment was lost and the motion to adopt the report was carried.