CREAM . . . O

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 10

CREAM . . . O

Novel Delivery For Shore Residents BICYCLE AND EQUIPMENT Pedalling, and sometimes pushing his bicycle, heavily laden with fins cf cream, hurricane lamps, cooking and eating utensils, Mr. L. K. Godfrey has maintained a most reliable cream supply to Takapuna and Birkenhead residents. and during the past two years has travelled 12,000 miles, but not or. any occasion has he disappointed liis 100 customers. A queer contraption in appearance comes along the road, either pushed or ridden. One could hardly imagine it to be a perfectly good bicycle, laden with cans of cream. Over the rough clay road leading from the “barren gum bills” (as the owner himself describes them) to the concrete roads of the Takpuna district, this cream

conveyance is pushed or pedalled, but always so regular and reliable. Mr. Godfrey’s herd is quite a modest one of ten cows and his farmlet is located between Birkenhead and Riverhead and about two miles from the nearest metal road. To send the milk either to the factory or for town supply would, according to Mr. Godfrey, be a losing proposition, and so a separator has been installed and with two large carriers fixed to his bicycle he proceeds tc deliver his own cream which, evidently meets with the general approval of exactly 100 customers. FOUR TIMES A WEEK Mr. Godfrey delivers his goods four days a week and each of those days certainly’ provides an endurance test. To “spank” ten cows and separate is a task which occupies two hours, but it is necessary for him to be clear o*. lus gate by S a.m. in order to finish the day’s work and be home in time fir the evening milking. He has no option but to push his bicycle over the clay road, but once on the highway’ he con mount his machine and ride, althougn even then, with his bicycle so heavily laden, it is an art which would take the average man a considerable time to acquire. After supplying his customers m Birkenhead, about one-third of them reside there, Mr. Godfrey then proceed* to catch the midday ferry’ for the city The ferry’ trip holds more than the usual enjoyment for him, for it is while there that he is supplied with hot water and he makes tea for lunch. The visit to town is not one to view the shops, for Mr. Godfrey immediately takes the Bays water ferry and supplies his Takapuna customers. He then travels back to hu. iiorae by’ road. Mr. Godirey does not always arrive home at an early’ hour in the evening To a large extent he is at the mercy of the elements, but is well prepared for the worst that can be offered. He carries plenty’ of eatables and always a patent cooking outfit for the purpose of making hot tea. He also carries hurricane lamps on the front and back of his machine. Mr. Godfrey is a little reserved about his adventures. He says lie likes cycling and all that sort of thing, blit he really prefers not to talk about it at all. He has often transported five gallons of cream at a time and as each can in itself weighs about 151 b one has some indication of Mr. Godfrey’s pedalling ability.