MISSING BOTTLES
Tally For Dunedin . (N2 Press Association) DUNEDIN, May 25. Every month 28.000 bottles fail to come back to the Dunedin Metropolitan Milk Treatment Station. The mystery of the missing bottles has been partially solved by the station staff and milk vendors Some are used as containers of oil, kerosene and other liquids, some are broken and some are apparently used for pot plants. Breakages at the treatment station average 200 bottles each day About 960 bottles are lost each day, so 760 are not accounted for.
Replacements cost the treatment station 7s a dozen bottles and the life of a bottle given normal usage and return is about 75 to 80 distributions Dunedin households consume 69.000 pints daily and school milk distribution accounts for 12.000 half-pint bottles. Cream distribution totals 2400 half-pints daily with a considerably higher figure on Sundays.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29523, 26 May 1961, Page 12
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