GROCERY DELIVERIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 172, 23 July 1942, Page 6

GROCERY DELIVERIES

ZONING ARRANGEMENTS LIQUOR TRANSPORT QUESTION (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wed. Preparations are being made here for zoning grocery deliveries. Mr. T. H. Langford, South Island zoning officer, said to-day that he intended to have zoning schemes for bread, milk and groceries put into operation as soon as possible in South Island towns. He was trying to get information now from Christchurch grocers and storekeepers and was preparing questionnaires for them. The returns would indicate the extent of vehicle use inn the districts served and overlapping. Then, with the trade's co-operation and assistance, he would put a scheme into effect.

Mr. Langford was invited to comment on statements by the North Island zoning officer, Mr. H. M. Christie, on beer transport. "There is today," Mr. Langford said, "an enormous wastage of road and rail wagons and shipping space in the transport of alcohol. That should not be permitted for another day. If people are called on to take whatever milk and bread is zoned upon them, then surely alcohol should not have preferential treatment. There is no provision under the regulations for me as zoning officer to deal with beer transport. However, the Minister has power to declare it a commodity with which I can deal and to gazette commodities other than those already listed in the regulations."