OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 3

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

INCREASED PRICE OF MILK (To the Editor.) Sir. —Your correspondent hits the nail on the head when he refers to the insane practice of half a dozen or more milkmen traversing the same streets where one or two could comfortably do the job, and what’s more, do the job more efficiently than it is done at present. There certainly seems no justification to charge 100 per cent on the extra, price the farmer is charging them, and the retailers would be well advised to drop this extortionate increase. Furthermore, why should this price continue for six months? Surely, with milk at Is 2d to Is 3d, sixpence a quart cash should be quite enough to pay? Some three of four years ago, two or three very energetic and enthusiastic members of the community endeavoured to get a co-operative milk supply going, which undoubtedly is a good scheme and should have received every support, but I presume because it megnt the elimination of some of the “old school,” it was turned down. The milk vendors have the chance today of putting their house in order before municipalisation takes control, so take time by the forelock, and cut out the bulk of your doubtful credit trade which we, as cash customers, always have to pay for. —I am, etc., PRACTICAL. Masterton, May 10. A SCOTTISH REGIMENT (To the Editor.) Sir —One reads with interest from time to time of the activities, social and otherwise, of the St. Andrew Society in Masterton. One has only to pick up the telephone book to find almost an entire page and a half devoted to Mac’s. The Wairarapa College Pipe Band is also a credit and a delight to the community. Has it ever occurred to the society which has done so much to foster the national spirit in its songs and reels, that there is a real service waiting to be done now, viz., the forming of a Scotch Regiment in the Wairarapa? Is the spirit of our ancestors dead or merely dormant? —I am, etc., SCOTSWOMAN. Masterton, May 10.