TO JOIN THE DODO.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 232, 13 September 1922, Page 7

TO JOIN THE DODO.

MILK BOTTLES DISCARDED. PAPER CONTAINERS SUBSTITUTED. Just when the Wellington municipality is priding itself on its up-to-dateness in instituting the distribution of the city’s milk supply in glass bottles, it will bo a little disconcerting to know that a recently received Californian paper declares this method to be “doomed to join the dodo and other discards of antiquity.” In its place, according to a Washington message in the journal quoted, comes the sterilised paper container, made, filled with milk or cream and sealed all by machinery. It will be germ-proof, unreiillable and sanitary to the nth degree, and it will cost less than the dairyman now pays to wash the clanking 'milk bottles. Milk and cream will come to the lips untouched by human hands and free from dirt of any kind. The Government officials have made an investigation and they approve of the change on both sanitary and economical grounds .Machinery is now being constructed in the United States for the delivery of literally billions of these new containers and contracts have been made with practically all the big milk producers of the East to replace the old glass system which requires washing, sterilising and constant care and expense to deliver sanitary supplies from the dairies of the country to the congested districts of all the large cities. New York, Phildelphia, Washington and Chicago will be the first cities of the country to have the paper holders for milk substituted for the glass bottles that wake the householder at dawn. The change will be made early in the fall, and no more will the milk bottles freeze in winter The contract basis on which these supplies are furnished to the dairymen is so low that new supplies daily will cost less than the return and cleansing of the bottles, to sav nothing of the first cost and replacement. One of the greatest factors in dairy costs is the breakage of containers, and this promises to be completely eliminated.