OPENING DELAYED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26783, 28 May 1948, Page 7

OPENING DELAYED

NEW MILK STATION FURTHER THREE WEEKS Indications that the new milk treatment station at Logan Point would not be in operation for a further two or three weeks yet were given at the monthly meeting of the Dunedin Metropolitan Milk Board last night. Mr N. D. Anderson, who presided, said he understood that the station would not begin on June 1 as was at first expected. The Works Committee of the City Council, he added, had treated the work that was necessary, as urgent. The secretary, Mr A. E. Russell, replied that it would probably be a fortnight to three weeks before the station began. Mr T. McD. Foster said that practically all the equipment had been installed and the City Council was finishing the roads to it. Inside the station, shift work was being done in order that it might be in operation as soon as possible. The manager of the present milk treatment station, Mr G. Hepburn, wrote regarding complaints about chipped bottles and bottles not completely filled. The station was in an unhappy position, he said, as far as bottles were concerned. Supplies were scarce, orders had not been met and the station had had to resort to borrowing some pint bottles from the Timaru board. Mr Hepburn pointed out that bottles frequently became chipped during the process of distribution. Concerning the second complaint, he wrote that as the present fillers were of old design, considerable difficulty was being experienced in filling quart bottles. Mr Anderson: I have noticed a marked improvement in the bottles in the last few weeks. The secretary said that the trouole over the fillers would be overcome when the new station was opened. Mr Hepburn’s letter was received. Douglas J. Fox, of Concord, applied for a milk zone.—His application was merely noted, as there were no vacancies available. It was pointed out that a new zone might be constituted in the Corstorphine area soon.