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The Company's main offices are situated in the Town Depôt, 2 Lower Albert Road, Victoria. It comprises three blocks of buildings. Branches have been opened in Kowloon, Quarry Bay and Shameen (Canton).
The Cold Stores and Ice Factories are situated at the Eastern end of the city and at Lai-chi-kok on the mainland respectively, and at the farm at Pokfulum on the South-western side of the Island.
THE STAFF OF DISTRIBUTORS.
THE STAFF OF MILK COLLECTORS.
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DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCE.
The distribution of the Company's various products in the city is mostly effected by means of carriers (coolies) owing principally to the hilly nature of the country. On the lower levels of the city, however, carrier- tricycles and motor vans are used to great advantage.
The Company possesses four steam launches, one motor boat and two lighters. These are used entirely for provisioning the numerous mail liners and other steamers which call at Hong Kong. Orders both large and small are received and attended to by the shipping department with the utmost promptitude and care. Steamers are always met by the Com- pany's representative and provisions put on board under the personal supervision of the European in charge.
All dairy produce and fresh meat for distribution in the city are brought to the depôt from the farms by closed motor vans. At the depôt this is received, tested, weighed and prepared for distribution. The Company possesses up-to-date milk filling and capping machinery run by motor power and the strictest measures are enforced as to the cleanliness and the sanitary condition of the premises and the servants.
The fresh milk comes from the farms in sealed churns, is bottled in standard wide-mouth crystal glass bottles, capped with fibre caps, and hermetically sealed by means of paraffin wax, thus ensuring the milk against the possibility of contamination.
The Company's carriers are all housed on the Company's premises in specially built quarters, which, being under constant supervision, are kept in a most sanitary condition. Regulations are strictly enforced, as the Company realises the importance of securing that men employed in the handling of food are both clean and healthy. This could not, of course, be guaranteed if the servants were allowed to live away from supervision and in the insanitary dwellings that unfortunately abound in the city.
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