EARLY DELIVERY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 6

EARLY DELIVERY

IN TIME FOR BREAKFAST AN IMPROVEMENT IN MILK SUPPLY, Unquestionably a weakness in the city's municipal supply scheme during the past year or so-has been the fact that in some parts of-the the .roundsmen have called so late in the .morning (so early in the afternoon in .some -cases) ..that householders . haye.per- ;- ,force held oyer..a..sufncient.,.quaiitity of milk from the ..previous .day .for , the morning's . meal. The ; .result Jias certainly..been, .thatahe .City .CoirugilVjjas lost, a ; fair numbei- of customers, for householders . : who . -wanted' to-day's milk for.to-day's r breakfast have beckoned to ;the roundsman .on the, other - delivery cart. ■ .The: Milk :.Committee, has rented i that here jyas a..drawback to rtjhe system,, but up .tiirthe last ,\veek. or.so .could see no satisfactory way but of the difficulty, which-arose when-a new award .was being drawn up and the unjon insisted .upon their-rights, under, the. Shops ,apd Offices-Act, '"which ,"provides'that ■ yfithout., the [consent of, the '.parties concerned „work could '.not :be\ commenced before.4 .a.m.' "V- "' ■-■■-■•- -,THe ..ofejectionsl, raised, by the union, however, have now'been overcome by an extra payment, and N early will commence,from to-morrow morning, the depot ..workers ' starting '.four' hours easier. '"''

No .part pf,.the. work of the- Milk Committee had ..giyen.the members more concern that",the question of early: de- : liyery, said .the /chairman, • Councillor rW. H. -.Bennett. 'On- one. hand, - there .vfas the old .complaint of : the' '. noise icaused by 'the Nearly .'morning delivery, ;the..opehing and.shutting of gates, rat:tlmg of crates, .arid "so.on, .and there ; was .also :tlje . fact ,that '.a; longer •. time was ..occupied .in delivering a given quantity1 "of milk ra the dark-than in Idayhght. ..On the other hand, daylight .dehyery .-.during .the ' summer -months .meant that it was difficult .to protect the .milk from, the rays, of . the. sun and .consequently there was . a danger :tbat ,it would /all away in quality" the sooner. 'Various, deyiqes were .tried to'- couritfir,act ; this difficulty,, the packing \y-ith ice jof the crates and,bottles, 'and the' use |of , wooden .covers on ,the'crates, ;but jthe devices'.had npt been altogether ,satisfactory. ' ' " ' ~ 1 Councillor Bennett remarked :that. it iwas lipped that consumers would "db'tLeii(Part, jn order to 'ayoid' inconvenience to i themselves and to ' the .department's . staff, by. making a, mental*1 note of ■ the ( fact-^that early delivery is again to com,mence,and ( :by -seeing, that* their bottles land ccupous were .-.placed in position ; p.vernight. "A ".formal, notification of .the i change .in deliyery hours is made in I another column; in this, issue. : Roundsmen this-morning left at each .customer's house-a four-page-leaflet giv- , jug. advice as to the. keeping- of milk dur- ; ing., .warm- weather, the -three -main- points i made .being :— . ' " ' -Milk be.-kept in a cool-place. : aiid shpuld also be-paid- to the .position-jmwhicli. the bottle is to be -left i by '.the roundsman. .The bottle.top should-be washed careifiilly ,and dried.with a :cleaii cloth as ,soon.'as it ..is brought -into -the house; ;the top receives a'goocLdeal ofh'and.JJSS. and ; uiiless ; it, is :.the jwilk ,njust pass qver : a surface i which/ may .not (he. [thoroughly clean. \The milk should-be >lloKed .to -remain in, the bottle, with,the cap undisturbed until,required,for use. After-being, ppienpd'thebpttleEhp.u}d|be ( kept coveted.