MILK DELIVERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 19

MILK DELIVERY

NOISE AT NIGHT RESIDENT'S COMPLAINT COUNCIL TO CONSIDER MATTER Complaint against what was described as the great amount of noise, largely preventable, made by horse-drawn carts of retailers of milk in various parts of Auckland was expressed in a letter from an Auckland resident to the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council yesterday. The writer said he was expressing tho feeling of many persons in drawing the attention of the council to the noise, an annoyance he had experienced in various residential parts of Auckland. "At present this is done at an early hour in the morning from very noisy clattering carts, the horses in which make a most disturbing noise on the hard roads," the letter added. "These horses do not wear anythipg on their hoofs to lessen this noise. They should wear rubber shoes which are now made for this purpose, or at least have their iron shoes covered in some way. The carts do not even have rubber tyres on tho wheels." Mr. E. P. Andrews considered it would be impossible to deal with tho trouble. The milk had to be delivered and a certain amount of noise was inevitable. The chairman, Mr. I. J. Goldstine, said it was a matter in which the council would be doing a service to the public if something could bo done. The matter of rubber shoes could be given further consideration, and at a later date the council might be able to make some arrangements to eliminate or diminish the noise. It was decided to write to the correspondent in terms of the chairman's remarks.