THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.
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HIS is the story of a pint of milk, the pint that Jack drank and Albert extracted from the cow, and of what happened to it in between.
I shadowed this particular pint all one wet afternoon and night;
but millions
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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.
was a
And at last our destination, the headquarters of one of the largest independent dairies in South-West London.'
It was a strango sceno. Wo drew up by a bank in a back street. Inside was a glare of light and the noise of machinery. After the long journey up from Hampshire, the nolso and com- motion scomed overwhelming,
The cans were unloaded and the milk pourtd into huge cauldrons,
MILK
Walter is the next character where it was pasteurised to on the scene. At six o'clock destroy germs and improve sharp hé arrives at the farm its keeping qualities. More men with his lorry. He visits nine in white coats and caps moved farms, and when fully loaded like creatures in a Wells fantasy
controlling the different pro cesses, An astonishing robot bottled and sealed the milk in containers of varying sizes from
has over three tons of milk on the lorry. He is a cheerful, swarthy fellow in the forties. "This is a fine job," he says. Three pounds a week clear, and the round usually takes about seven hours, though his firm allows him more.
consumers.
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All through the night the boil- ing and bottling continued, until He started driving cars before at five; as the first light was the war,
and drove an Army breaking through the rain, the lorry in France. Ils last job first roundsmen arrived to take was terrible. He
some the milk on its final journey to
Jack or you.
Was
The Government has decided to tuforce compulsory pasteuri- sation of milk in Hongkong, the announcement coming from the retiring Governor, Sir Andrew Galdecott, this week. Here is an article explaining the complicated process of bringing milk to your door as carried out in England.
The owner of the dairy has been in the business for thirty- one years. One of his men re- members when a farm stood on ita site. Twenty-two farms, all in Hampshire, supply it, and twenty-three roundsmen take the bottled milk out cach morn- ing. The turnover is 800 gal.
Jack's pint started in the rich pastures of a farm in Hamp- shire, halfway from Salisbury to the sea. The cow that ate the pasture
cross-bred Shorthorn, one of eighty that slung across his shoulders to times nineteen hours on the road grazed on a six-hundred-aere, the cooler, where the tempera- at a stretch, and he holds strong lons a day. Most of the milk- farm belonging to a man who,ture of the milk is reduced from views on the methods by which had lived there for over forty over 90degs. to 60degs, to keep some firms still succeed in evad- Three, who cover the outlying mon still drive horse-carts. years. His father had moved it sweet. Then it is poured into ing the law and sweating, their districts, have motor vans. Six from a farm in Somerset in the ordinary old-fashioned cans im- drivers.
eighties.
go on foot.
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some
THE FERRY MISHAP
mersed in running water.
Walter drives beautifully, The farmer here is one of the never exceeding the limit, never It requires no great stretch of
Together they serve The cow was a mixed brown larger producers feeding London, worried by dazzling on-coming the imagination to perceive that
carn and-white, and five years old. He sells from 100 to 140 gallons headlights, always in complete 3,000 families, and they
rather more than three pounds the collision between two "Star" She had been bred on the farm, of milk a day, according to the control of his heavy load. a week each. Like every
With him I travelled in the else I met on this trail, they all Ferry Company vessels in mid-and was worth twenty-eight season. He employs fourteen
men, and pays them £24 a week, rainy night across Salisbury drink milk and believe that in it harbour on Wednesday evening pounds. She yielded about
gallon and a half twelve pints apart from the rent of their Plain and away up through the lies the secret of good health. might easily have been a major of milk a day, and was milked cottages and certain perquisitics, pine and heather country to And so to Juck. He was still. catastrophe, resulting in heavy twice in the twenty-four hours He has three and a half thou- Camberley. It was a long drive, asleep when I called on him and loss of life. As it was, thanks at six in the morning and four sand pounds of capital invested and we did not reach the garage left his pint on the doorstep. in the farm, which he rents, and until eleven. Then Walter could But I know all about him. He for the last few years has about call it a day, and hand over the js ten years old, and his father broken even in his accounts. lorry to another driver.
largely to the presence of mind of the coxswain of the "Night Star," not only were the nundreds of passengers aboard the ferry-boat safely landed, but no injury was suffered by any- one. The company has a record, in the matter of freedom from
in the afternoon.
Grade A milk only, so the cows. This particular farm, produced
were tested for tuberculosis, and the milk sampled for clean- at regular intervals. Hiness by Government inspectors
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has a job in an insurance office, He drinks half a pint of milk be. Poultry, which he keeps on a
fore he goes to school in the A welcome cup of tea and off morning and the other half pint large scale, help considerably to again through the night, the rain before he goes balance the budget. He seldom making the streets and tram- are half a million like him in to bed. There takes a holiday, but manages an lines glitter in our headlights as London. I should like one day I saw her first at half-past occasional three on a wet afternoon. She shooting. He thinks that things cargo of milk cans clanking be and Jack to each other.
day's hunting or we neared London, and the great to introduce Albert and Walter was standing in a byre with might have been worse, and has hind as we passed over a bumpy
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Basil Murray
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VERNON BARTLETT just back from the besieged capital
concerned in the maintenance of inn in a white linen cap and a service which carries some coat and gum boots. He was ,000 people across the harbour her, and he had-come-back-to the son of Albert, who milked every day. There have been the farm after working in a minor accidents, but this is the baker's shop. first time in the history of the
Albert is head cowman. He Company in which two of its is a tall, sturdy man who has worked on his farm for thirty- boats have come into collision. four years. His wife was a Remembering the tremendous milkmaid here before they had growth of the service, the huge all men on the job. Now they have three sons-one, who was numbers of passengers carried, in the Navy, died following a the frequency with which the motor accident-one is a brick-THERE
There are thousands of families stitute a tragedy which should win ferries run
during the rush layer; and one in the motor in- ed every conversation in Ger- whose members are scattered about the world's sympathy rather than its
dustry. He earns a little over many, during the inflation period- Spain unable to discover each other's horror. hours, the crowded state of the two pounds a week, has a cot."Valuta," or exchange. In Spain whereabouts. harbour, with vessels of all types tage within walking distance of to-day the predominant word
Besides, genuine efforts are being It is a tragedy that in the early made on the Spanish Government constantly on the move, and the drinker. He gets up at four scarce.
the farm, and is a great milk "gasolina," for petrol is dangerously days some great international organi-side to educate and Improve. The occasional spells of bad weather
sation, reminiscent of the Hoover re- sunummary "bumping-off" of suspect- Along the 220 miles of road belief mission in Belgium during the ed or disliked persons has, as far as encountered, it says much for does not go to bed until eleven. twee Valencia and Madrid I saw wor, could not be established to I could discover, come to an end. tne coxswains in charge of the
only two petrol stations open, and modify the personal miseries which the possibility that the pumps will so easily lead one to undervalue this hold you up at the entrance to every The ignorant guards who used to boats that such a large measure
The eighty cows on this farm
be empty before one reaches them eple struggle of a people to win village in order to aludy your per- of immunity from accident has are milked by
to the freedom. a team of four gives a strange excitement
mits the wrong way, up have dis- Journey across that majestic, wild been enjoyed. In the instance men. They work in unison.
The failure to establish such an appeared. The ting of mille as it spurts
parched country.
organisation is due partly to the under notice, the spontaneous into the pails makes a song like is that Madrid is as crowded with ganda about "the Reds," which has One result of the petrol shortago success of General Franco's propa- action of the coxswain of the a march. One of them was women and children as it has ever dried up the milk of human kind- taken by smart and efficient young Their place, when necessary, is "Night Star" not only in mak-whistling "John Peel" to the been. Thousands have been distri-ness in democratic countries, and
rhythm of the milk-jets while Ibuted ing for the Hongkong waarf im-watched them. They all wore one doubts whether they really equal of the, foreigner-in some cases even
men who have been recalled from timong remote
villages, but partly to incompetence, and distrust the front to maintain order. mediately after the impact, but white linen coats and caps and in numbers those refugees who when he is fighting in the Interna- in readily appreciating the need gum boots. It takes about eight streamed into the capital before the tional Column.
a cow. minutes for one of them to strip Fascist advance from Talavera and
every morning, and sometimes
of proceeding to the side of the wharf not being used in the regular service, is worthy of the carries them on a wooden yoke When the pails are full Albert highest commendation. With a
a
Toledo.
The civilians will not leave partly
port to take them away and, by re- because there is not enough trans-
maining, they make transport scarcer than ever.
:
came across
In Valencia the longest queue I was waiting to see Charlie Chaplin in "Modem Times" but some queues in Madrid walt all
night for a ration of coal.
.
Is
I returned to Valencia early the
second bed in my room occupied by other morning and discovered the
a man I had never seen before.
He turned out to be a Basque from Pampelona sleeping between sheets for the first time in four months. He. awoke after eighteen hours during which there had been two air-raid alarms with warning sirens to which I should have thought only
These articles refer only to the Government side' In the Civil War, for I have not visited the other, and prefer to avoid the easy method of writing down unconfirmed rumour as established fact.
But there is no doubt that General Franco is having much
the same difficulties with his. Falangists and Carlists as Senor Caballero with his Communists and Syndicalists.
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If one did report rumour, would assert that a prominent Falan- gist leader has recently been arrest- ed, and that anti-foreign feeling is
sinking vessel on his hands, hadably give little thought to the ho mnde for the other side, not excellent facilities which they only would the service have been enjoy, for we are all more or less held up, but other consequences prone to take these things for of a serious character might granted. It is only right and have resulted. All in all, the proper, however, that, after
the dead could remain. Indifferent for stronger in Salamanca than it is This is less terrible In Spain, and told me his history, navigating staff certainly did a mishap such as that of Wednes- where streets are, above all, placca
in Valencia, His mother for conversation, than it would be in splendid piece of work, to which day evening, due appreciation England, where they are used only
was a Socialist, bis Whether the Valencia Government father was a member of Gil Robles's will win, I do not know. But I do the fortunate outcome of the should be placed on record "of to anothe you to get from one house catholle, Party, his art, we know, with oven deeper certainty collision for those on board is the admirable manner in which It is nevertheless great hard himself was a Communist who had ago,
fighting for General Franco, and he than on my last visit four months that. its defeat would',' be a primarily due.
The thousands the navigating staff coped with ship which the people accept with
resignation because they prefer the the Civil War.
been in almost every major battle of tragedy graver than any other which of people who patronise the ferry a situation charged with ox-discomfort on to the terrible un--The distrust and cruelty which the end of the war which was to
and the danger from
has been suffered by democracy since 'service day in and day out prob- tremely serious possibilities,
certainties of migration:
arises from such circtimstances con-make the world'safe for it.