SLOWER DELIVERY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 132, 4 May 1940, Page 9

SLOWER DELIVERY.

SULK ROUNDSMEN. Per Press Association. AUCKDAaD, May 3. Milk roundsmen in Auckland put into effect to-day a decision made at a union meeting on Thursday to start w-ork .not earlier than 2.30 a.m. and to make their deliveries at a smart walking pace, without running, as they claimed was oi'ten necessary in the past. The action,' which was officially denied as a “go slow” move. Jins been taken as. a protest against tne alleged possibility of men having to deliver greater quantities of milk and start half an hour earlier each day under the proposed zoning scheme. In isolated . eases milk deliveries suffered a slight delay. Jn the city and suburbs this morning only a limited number of customers always served near the end of some of the largest rounds were inconvenienced by the late arrival of their suppliesTwo of the largest milk vending firms reported that none of their roundsmen returned to the depot any later than usual. “It is deplorable that the union should take action on hearsay statements alleged to have been made by somone connected with the milk trade,” said the chairman of the Milk Council (Mr I. J. Goldstinc). “If it had approached the Milk Council the union would have ascertained that up to the present the council had never discussed gallonage to be served under the zoning scheme, nor , has it ever laid down what gallonage must be delivered by a roundsman.”