MOTOR DELIVERY OF CREAM

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 563, 3 September 1920, Page 4

MOTOR DELIVERY OF CREAM

COSTS ItEOUOEO IY HALF.

CLEVEL'ON SUPPLIERS' ENTERPRISE.

For many years past the question of the cartage of cream has been a burning one as far as the Clevedon suppliers of the New Zealand Co-op-erative Dairy Company are concerned. At the commencement of last year the cost was £450 per annum, and later it rose to £650, and towards the end of the season .the cost of cart-; age advanced to £IOOO, This year it was suggested that the cost to the suppliers would be increased a further 60 per cent. With the object of reducing this weighty item the committee of the Clevedon suppliers determined to provide ways and means, so a motor-van was obtained. This, it is contended, will be the means of reducing the cost to even less than half of the original cost. The capital for the purchase of the cream van was arranged by the Company, but the Clevedon suppliers are to find the necessary interest and sinking fund. The van will be under the control of the Clevedon branch, and should settle the carting question for. all time as far as the Clevedon district is concerned. The acquisition of the van reveals the fact that the Clevedon suppliers are an enterprise ing lot, and their example will, no doubt, be followed by other districts. If the carting costs can be reduced by over half at the present time, it will mean the saving of hundreds of pounds to the producers. The van is up-to-date in every respect, being covered in with canvas, while provision is made by two doors* on either side to obviate backing in to receiving depots. It is a two and a-half ton 4-cylinder Napier truck, the body of which was specially built by Messrs. Cooper and Curd, coachbuilders, Pukekohe, It is fitted with a double loading deck. On the whole the appearance gives the impression of a really first-class job. Everything is absolutely new, and the truck is undoubtedly one of the best on the roads,