AUCKLAND MILK SUPPLY

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5881, 8 April 1920, Page 2

AUCKLAND MILK SUPPLY

CURTAILMENT ANNOUNCED OWE DELIVEBY PES DAY (Special to the Daifr Telegraph.) ATJUKLATTO. zh\i flay. As trom the 26th of the present month, the retail milk delivery in the city is to bo curtailed for the winter months from twice daily to once, -the present morning delivery at four o'clock. This decision was arrived at by the Milk Vendors' Association at a meeting held last week. A supplier stated yesterday that the cost of delivery had increased considerably. The wages had gone up twice since the beginning of November, with out any alteration in the retail pries of dairy produce. The high cost of benzine for the motor delivery, horse feed, all kinds of repairs, and the coal For the factories were heavy items. All these things meant that the hours of the whole plant had to be reduced.