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INFANTS' MILK DEPÔT.

An inspection of the above balance sheet will show that
during 1907 the expenditure exceeded the income by £715 10s.
This loss on the year's working has, at first sight, been greater
than that in 1906, but on analysis this will be found not to be
the case. It is to a large extent accounted for by the increased
price we have had to pay for our milk to ensure that the
principle that guided the Committee, viz., the supply to the
Depot of milk from a farm at which the sanitary requirements
of the Committee were being fulfilled, was being upheld. The
increased price paid for the milk has been more than balanced
by the considerable increase in the income derived from the
sale of milk. Additional expenditure was also incurred during
1907 owing to the fact that the milk has now to be collected
at the railway station, instead of, as heretofore, being delivered
by the contractor at the Milk Depot. Another increased item
of expenditure was the provision of a supply of wire baskets,
for holding the day's supply of milk. This was the first occasion
since the Dep6t was started in 1901, on which it was
found necessary to renew the stock of wire baskets. This last