THE MILK TRADE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3082, 16 April 1892, Page 2

THE MILK TRADE.

Wk don't know whether there is any special provision in nur social and political economy tnatio for the express pnrp >sc. of enabling people to withstand sever.! nervous shocks, but if there is, we should say that sonic of it would have been very acceptable at the Whatiwhati creaineiy on a recent Monday morning. Milk suppliers—ns a rule—are a hardy lot, and accustomed to contend with perhaps Dither more than the average share of life's difficulties, but the sudden apparition of a brace of constables on the creamery platform, where usually nothing more serious than the genial manager is to be met with, gave them, to say the least, a painful surprise. This uneasy feeling, even tho anxious enquiries of the visitors made in that tillable manner, which somehow is disagreeable in a policeman, as to the state of their health, in no way allayed. Their health, indeed 1 It was rather the health of the fluid contents of tho milk cans that they were so concerned about. This anxiety was evidently shared by the blue coats, for samples were carefully taken in mysterious black bottles for future reference. This action is no doubt taken for the purpose of seeing whether the long-looked-for rise in the price of iniik cannot be immediately given. Let us hope that it is so, and further proof may not be forthcoming, that even in the miik trade, " the way of the transgressor is hard."