DELIVERY OF MILK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23829, 3 December 1940, Page 13

DELIVERY OF MILK

PROTEST BY WOMEN REPORT ON DEPUTATION NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING A report on a deputation taken by the National Council of Women to the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council last week to protest against the late delivery of milk and against the proposal to leave the milk at front gates was given by Miss G. M. Hemus, president of the council, at the monthly meeting Inst night. The question of the milk delivery was then discussed at the meeting and all present endorsed the action of the council's executive in forming the deputation of protest. M iss Ellen Melville, a member of the Milk Council, said this body was not in favour of front gate delivery, and she pointed out that the council could not fix the starting time for milkmen to begin their rounds. In reply to a question, she said that milk was reduced in price when the zoning system came into operation three or four months ago, and that zoning, which had been brought inro effect at the request of the Government to save petrol, had successfully served this purpose. She considered the National Council of Women was taking a proper stand it: protesting against the late delivery and proposed front gate delivery of milk, as both affected the interests of women and children. If milkmen were to he allowed to deliver milk at the front gate. Miss B. Cnrnnchan pointed out that the same privilege might then have to he applied to butchers, bakers and other tradesmen. A visitor to the council last night was Mrs. How Martyn. world president of the Birth Control Association, who gave a brief address 011 the system of giving advice to mothers by doctors employed in the maternal and child welfare centres in England.