SUBURBAN DAIRY FACTORIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 7 March 1913, Page 6

SUBURBAN DAIRY FACTORIES.

<To the Editor.) Sir, —A number of small dairy factories with pasteurising machinery are being, established in different parts of the suburbs. It seems 'o be a principle with the owners of these places to plant them down where the working class population is the thickest. I and my family, owning the house in which we reside, have the misfortune to be near one of these, and I think it is high time to compel the owners to take such factories to more remote districts, where their noise and clatter would be no annoyance to the residents. The loading of carts and dandies, the banging of cans and general clatter, commences at about half-past three every morning. The machinery clumps and grinds away all day, and often up to eleven o'clock at night, including Sundays, The carts and dandies loading and unloading on the Sabbath in the public street across the pathway is not a very edifying sight, and the whole thing is to my mind a crying scandal. Of course, such a thing would not be attempted in a district where the residents are wealthy, (because they would resist it in the courts; but working people have not the necessary funds to enter into litigation, and so I write you for assistance in a cause that needs resistance. —I am, etc., A WORKING WOMAN.