NO MORE QUARTS
New Equipment For Milk Quart size milk bottles are being gradually replaced by one Christchurch milk company, and next year both companies will be using pint bottles only. Both companies have ordered new automatic equipment for handling, washing and filling milk bottles, and will be able to deal with one size only. As quarts are less popular than pints, they will have to go. Wrights Metropolitan Milk Company, Ltd, will use the new equipment when it moves into a new factory In Russley Road in about six months and the Christchurch Milk Company, Ltd, will have the new equipment in its new factory in Blenheim Road about a year from now.
But when pint bottles take over the field there will be no huge stockpilea of quart bottles to be disposed of. The breakage and loss rate is so high that the milk companies are buying new bottles continuously. They do not expect to have many over, and the few that are left will be melted down by the glassmakers.
Many other towns and cities in New Zealand have already dispensed with quart bottles. In Christchurch the two milk companies will still use halfpint and quarter-pint bottles, but these will be handled manually.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31579, 17 January 1968, Page 6
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206NO MORE QUARTS Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31579, 17 January 1968, Page 6
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