MILK SUPPLY MONOPOLY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1922, Page 5

MILK SUPPLY MONOPOLY.

SOLDIER SETTLERS’ PLEA. (By Wire —Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. The report of the Agricultural and Commerce Committee on the petition of Gibb and Robertson and 170 dairy faimers praying for relief in respect to the milk supply monopoly granted to the Wellington' City Council by the Wellington Milk Supply Act, 1919, was presented to-day. The committee, after ten days’ investigation, state that tne petitioners have just cause for petitioning Parliament, and that steps should he taken to remove the grievance caused. The committee made recommendations to that effect. 3he committee’s report was supported by Messrs. T. M. Wilford, W. H. Field, G. W Forbes, A. Hamilton, W. T. Jennings, and W. D. Lysnar, and opposed by Messrs. R. A. Wright, P. Fraser and Sir John Luke.

One of the most interesting meetings of thp Agricultural and Stock Committee of the House of Representatives ts being held this session, and is full o£ vim at times. It is caused by a petition of dairy farmers, many being returned soldiers, asking that they be allowed to supply milk to Wellington city, notwithstanding the embargo on them granted to the Wellington Council by an Act passed two years This' Act empowers the council to exclude all milk suppliers outside a narrow limit from Wellington up to the Upper Hutt and Mangaroa. The council has spent a large sum °f is pasleuHse? the Department, and their farms amil dairy herds to be inspected by £ the Agricultural Department. -7 should be allowed to dispose of them milk, otherwise they will be r • -s third-class laud, and ran e e to £l3O per acre.