Sydney Milkmen Seek Six-Day Week
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.PAf SYDNEY, June 14. Sydney milkmen are battling for a six-day week, and most of their customers appear to back them in their bid to get Sundays off. One milkman, Mr Don Rannard, who delivers in the North Shore suburb of Turramurra, began it when he left a note with the bottles one morning, saying: “I would like to spend one day a week with my wife and family.” Mr Rannard asked his customers if they would be happy if he left two days’ supply every Saturday, so that he could have Sundays at home. Ninety per cent of the housewives on his round said “Yes,” and one wrote: “Good for you, Don. Have Sunday off like everybody else, and also all those holidays the postmen and bread-carters get. Best wishes, and a good sleep-in every Sunday.” Now more than 1000 homes in the north-western suburbs are going without. Sunday milk deliveries, and many more milkmen are planning to take a poll of their customers on the issue.
Forty-four of 49 milk vendors who get their supplies from the southern depot at Mascot joined the battle last week and sent a petition to the Milk Board.
The petition said that the 80-hour week at present worked by most milkmen re-
suited In ill-health, usually heart trouble, at a premature age. The Milk Board and the Milk Vendors* Association are against the move. The board said that under the Milk Act, introduced ir the early 1940 s to protect consumers* rights, vendors are required to deliver seven days a week. The president of the vendors’ association, Mr A. J. Southgate, said: “What we want is a greater profit margin on sales, so that vendors will be able to employ men to relieve them at week-ends.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31086, 15 June 1966, Page 6
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