MANY COMPLAINTS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 5

MANY COMPLAINTS

Milk Delivery In Auckland

roundsmens hours

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 13.

Many complaints are being received by the .Metropolitan Milk Council about the late delivery of milk under the system introduced on Monday, wherebj roundsmen start work at a a.m. instead of 2.30 a.m., as formerly. The objections come mainly from workers whose homes are situated toward the end of the rounds, and who cannot obtain fresh milk in time for breakfast. . The chairman, Mr. I. Goldstine, said the council was still awaiting a reply from the Minister of Ba hour, Mr. ■Webb, to a letter which it had written to him in September proposing Ilia I delivery should begin at 1 a.m. during eight months of the year and that daytime delivery should be inlroduecd for the four wimer months as compensation to roundsmen. ■We have never received more than it formal acknowledgment ot the letter," remarked Mr. Goldstine. "The whole situation was explained to Mr. C. L. Hunter, the Minister’s liaison officer at rhe end of last week. Il is to be presumed that Mr. Hunter Will report fully to the Minister, who alone has power to alter the present starting time. The milk council is not a party to the milk roundsmen’s award and has no authority whatever in the matter. It can only wait and see whether the Minister is prepared to take any action.”