Welcome back to another Milk themed cache. This time we are delivering some milky goodness to the suburb of Fairfield.
Initally created to be placed in 2022 one of lifes great adventures arose and instead we delivered our firstborn son.
-See excerpt below from Te Ara- Encyclopedia of New Zealand Link to Milk Delivery information
Milk deliveries
The milkman
In the days of horses and carts, milkmen carried big vats of milk on a horse float and filled the household billy. In some places horse delivery continued on into the 1960s, when trucks took over completely. Milkmen bought a ‘milk run’, and often worked in the very early morning before other vehicles were on the road.
The switch from vats to glass bottles came in the 1950s. People left money in one of the bottles or, later, used tokens, usually bought at the local dairy. The shift from the pint bottle to cartons came in the late 1980s.
Deregulating the milk run
Milk regulations were introduced in 1944 to ensure a year-round supply of fresh milk at a reasonable price. One milk producer in each area was granted the right to supply town milk. Until the late 1980s the sale of milk in supermarkets was prevented by regulation to protect home-delivery vendors against price cutting.
Deregulation of the milk industry began in 1986. Supermarkets could now sell milk, but the price was controlled. By 1991 only one-third of consumers still bought their milk from a vendor at their gate.
After full deregulation in 1993, milk could be sold by anyone at any price – opening the way for supermarkets to undercut the milkman. The home-delivery system died out over the new few years
Stroll along a newly made path by engingeering company Fulton Hogan (Placed with permission). This cache is a 500ml Container, inside sits a small milk van (Please leave behind when visiting).You will need to vetnure off the path for this cache, BYOP as pens often go walking. Room for swaps. As usual, please recover when found to keep the muggles unaware.