Milk was delivered to houses in New Zealand cities and towns until the mid-1990s, when it gradually stopped. Putting the milk bottles out – in the specially designed holder that most families would have owned – was often one of a child’s household duties. Glass milk bottles were replaced by cartons from the late 1980s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference:
EP/1972/4113/12A
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A system where glass milk
Heather McNair (not verified)
03 o Ākuhata 2016
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