aQ.S.R. NUD*IST Power version, revision 4.0. Licensee: History Department. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ Text search for 'milk' 'milk' +++ Searching document int. Allen, Stan... Um, my mother had a wee cow farm on Carlton Hill. I left her, left school, I [050 inaudible] school, I was first into school every morning, ah, the last in, the first out. We delivered MILK on the way to school you see and um, one day, I was in Standard 2, Miss Botting, she kept me in for something. I don't know yet what it was for. A lovely person she was. [055 inaudible] I might have been her pet, I don't know but, um, it wasn't the strap. As I hit home, my mum's wee cow farm, we had paddocks all round the place, Valley Road, Caversham and [058 inaudible] and my assignment was to look after the farm, seeing dad worked out of town, it was worse than the strap to me, yeah. 61 MP: DID YOU HAVE AN ELECTRIC MILKING MACHINE? 376 MP: AND DID THE MILK GO TO A SORT OF A TOWN SUPPLY OR WAS IT SOLD LOCAL? 396 SA: It was delivered straight to the house and don't forget there was some people who growled about the quality of the MILK. They had their billy at the back door, you'd stand back, we'd fire the milk into the billy and keep your nose well off, it was never washed, and some people got milk delivered twice a day at four pence a quart. 398 MP: WERE THERE A LOT OF TRADESMEN IN CAVERSHAM, YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WERE A BOY, WHO'D SELL THINGS LIKE FRESH EGGS OR MILK OR BREAD OR WHAT HAVE YOU RATHER THAN BRINGING IT IN FROM OUTSIDE. WOULD THEY GO DOOR TO DOOR OR WAS IT JUST SHOPS? 404 SA: No, but you were born in Glen Road which is Caversham, well in my time, the hill, this side of Glen Road, there was, there were people there who MILKed cows, that hill and further up, further South there was cows there and then further up there was the Salvation Army Home, [403 inaudible], they had cows too and ah, next door was ah, Hunters, they had a cow or two, further up there was Brownley's, they had a cow or two and then there was Lookout Point Boys Home, they had cows. 461 +++ 6 text units out of 581, = 1.0% +++ Searching document int.Barbara, Jack... JB: Yeah. And then Jack - I told you --- I started my job with the Box Factory and then I was manpowered to Luggate. Not far away from Wanaka. I was invited to a farm, Stan Kane's farm there. All I did was bury bloody dead sheep and bloody dig bloody trenches and bloody what-not. And getting the bloody morning ... she'd give us mushrooms cooked in blimmin MILK, and oh I used to hate it. So I finished up with them. I went to the manpower place in Wanaka and I finished up with them and so they manpowered me to Shacklock's in Dunedin. No, that was good. Because that's where me brother-in-law before he went overseas he worked there for years. And what I was doing was doing the cases for the mortar shells. 180 JB: I wouldn't have a clue. But he --- Cargill's Corner going back that way to St Kilda, he owned most of those shops. You know, where the Adelphi MILKbar - you remember that? 802 JB: No, she was an English girl. Yes she used to have the little MILKbar at Alexandra and then her husband died in a boating accident there - a speed boat accident. But we didn't see her much. She didn't, I don't know, I don't know what came between them, father and daughter, but she was hardly ever there. My sister Mary used to go quite a lot and help, you know. 830 +++ 3 text units out of 1054, = 0.28% +++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 1... ZR: MILK? 857 SB: Yes thanks. MILK and one sugar please. 859 +++ 2 text units out of 1954, = 0.10% +++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 2... OB: MILKing. 1487 +++ 1 text unit out of 3416, = 0.03% +++ Searching document intJ B... MC: SO IT'S LIKE MILK IS NOW? 173 We used to go and buy the MILK from some people. There was a store way over near the St Leonard's station and we use to go along there and buy a sante. I think it was a penny. 315 +++ Searching document int.Mrs JBoyce 1983... JB Do you know David Street? It's where the lights are. You may have noticed there's a Chinese grocer shop there. That was the soup kitchen. People used to queue up there for soup. I saw them. They also gave out clothes. You took a sugar bag in and got old clothes. Round the corner in David Street about the second house down they did something with MILK there. The impoverished people used to go there and get skim milk. I can remember that, that's what always made me fight for the underdog. I believe the Christian principles of the Labour Party. It was wicked. They say there's a depression on now, but there's not. People don't know what it was like. 482 +++ Searching document int.Caird, Myrtle... MC: Yes um and then oh when I'd be about getting on in my teens I worked at the exchange MILK bar and fruit shop. You know where Ð well I don't know what it is now. I always mean to have a look. When they built the new post office where the post office is, is that? 98 MC: No, not when I was at Miss Fisher's but when I worked at the MILK Bar I did. I paid ten shillings. 154 MEG: AND YOU WENT TO THE MILK BAR AFTER YOU'D BEEN AT PHOENIX'S? 156 MEG: WAS THE MILK BAR BETTER THAN THAT? 164 MC: Yes. About 12 or 13 round about. I can always remember too that I know at school they used to bring great big MILK can of soup. We weren't allowed any. Do you know I would have loved to have tried that soup. 1158 MEG: YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHO TURNED UP WITH THE MILK CANS. 1176 +++ 6 text units out of 1197, = 0.50% +++ Searching document int.Campbell, Amelia... AC: Standing there at Manse Street or the Octagon or wherever, yes we worked hard. My brother Victor the one that got the two medal, he was a MILK boy at 10 or nine - getting up three or four o'clock in the morning. We worked hard, our family. Very hard. No one knows it more than I do. My father died at 45, with seven children. 417 +++ Searching document int.Campbell, William... WC: Oh yes. Like two were old enough to work on MILK carts, 7 o'clock was up and about half past seven, oh well, breakfast was over by half past seven because twenty to eight tram, dad went to work [I: yeah] and breakfast was over then. 521 WC: Not very, on account of that you were home from church about a quarter past twelve, and you know, that was dinner time sort of, it might have been a bit rackety as regards breakfast, because there was no set time to get up. [I: on Sunday] By the time, oh, my brothers, two at a time, about 10 or 11 where on MILK carts, that guided or time a bit but not the family time. 548 I: AND HOW EARLY, OBVIOUSLY HAD TO GET UP FAIRLY EARLY FOR THE MILK RUN? 550 WC: Oh full time job that one. Show you a photo of the [262 inaudible]. I can remember the first vehicles that delivered bottled MILK in Dunedin. 568 +++ Searching document int.Crossan, Phyllis... PC: He was a travelling mechanic. He used to have to go round farms fixing tractors, MILKing machines and all that sort of thing. 199 PC: Well being able to go up there and see how everything worked. After they went out of business it was a MILK treatment station where they first started pasteurising milk which was an interesting place to go poking around looking to see how they did things. 389 +++ Searching document int.Cummings/Manson part1... CC: You just took it for granted. We used to carry it in buckets thought, my father had ten gallon MILK cans. Do you remember the old ten gallon milk cans? 243 I: MMM. OF COURSE THAT WAS ALL THE DAYS WELL AND TRULY BEFORE FREE MILK AND ALL THAT, WASN'T IT? 612 I: WHAT DID YOU DRINK AS KIDS? DID YOU JUST DRINK, WHAT, WATER, MILK? 1196 *JM: Of course you started see at, at 13 and 14 when Cam and I were young, you had to get out and fend for yourself. [CC: oh yes, oh yes] You had to go and take a MILK run on, or a Star on or work for a grocer or something, running. 1713 +++ 4 text units out of 1849, = 0.22% +++ Searching document int.Davidson, Andrew... AD: My mother was a widow (I: yeah) and there was no widow's pension in those days, (I: no) no pension at all, and at a very early age, I've been thinking about myself at a very early age, my father died, [389 inaudible] through and died, and mother, ah, went to work in the Roslyn Mills (I: yes) for a pound a week, I think a pound a week she got and as soon as we could get a job as newspaper runners my brother and I became either newspaper runners or we delivered MILK in the morning and at night. Ah, my mother went to work at the Roslyn Mills and she worked there for a good while before her health, she found that summer was too hot and she brought a shop and a flat, business and a flat and sold groceries, she did well, she was a good business woman. Finally, she brought a shop in Mornington and um, we, my brother and I, both of us worked in our spare time, we helped out the family, but mother was a good manager. My father died very early, I think I was three or four when he died, my father died, um, about 1901 when he died, 2, when he died, my mother went to work in the Roslyn Mills. 124 MD: Do you take MILK, Mr, (I: yes, please) what did you say your name is? 412 +++ Searching document int.Mr BD... BD: Oh, it was just sort of half and half I suppose. I used to, I was in the town and when she was up home with wee babies, I used to pay a lot of her bills (280Ð81), she'd pay all the groceries and everything else. (MC: RIGHT, RIGHT.) Butcher and all those sorts of things. They used to call at the places we lived at. The baker used to call, the butcher used to call and the man selling vegetables used to call, MILK. 569 +++ 1 text unit out of 987, = 0.10% +++ Searching document int.Mrs MD... MD: And they had a, a ... a, a MILK bar place there, you could buy cordials or milk-shake or something, but most of the - they had their own factory along that Cumberland Street, wasn't it, their factory, well, everything was along Cumberland Street, they got ... I got working there for a while. I enjoyed that. 571 BD: We had about twenty cows to MILK and calf to feed and pigs to feed and - 705 MD: Well, one was a farmer, and they got tangled up with the company people again, oh yes, it went over, and she felt her two sons needed somebody to look after them. Don't ask me that, that question, I don't know. The other one seems to know him all along, she's the only sister I've left now. And the end sister, she married the MILKman. 1659 MD: The MILKman. 1663 MC: THE MILKMAN, RIGHT. 1665 MD: But bear in mind, there were a lot of people that we had known that helped us quite often, you know, with food, mostly fresh, and they were people who needed it themselves, was nearly always the help came from those that had - that didn't have it either. That's [indistinct]. One friend wanted a cow to chew down the grass in our place, and they said, 'Well, it's not in MILK', she said, 'I'm not worrying about that as long as the grass is chewed down'. 1858 And when she got down there it wasn't long before a calf came along, and it was in MILK after a while, everybody got a shock over that old cow, that's Rose's cow, and Roy, my brother was next door with his kids, she gave him a big jug of milk and she said, 'I'll want you to take this up to the baby, she can have this jug of milk and a, a little jug for ourselves of cream'. And she had three children and no husband herself. No, they were kind the people that, that didn't have it, or that had least, were the ones that gave the most. 1860 MD: MILKman, milkman would come, and they'd all tap on the door, open the scullery door, we'd hear them put the milk in the safe, they either put your - the butcher put his parcel down, they'd leave your change where they got the money for each one, and never once did we - never had to lock a door at all, until after this recent war, when the soldiers started to come back home again, and half potty into the wrong houses, and the kids got frightened. 2034 +++ Searching document int.Duncan, Dorothy... The fifth day after she was born happened to be my birthday and the sister came up in the morning and she said, 'oh Mrs Duncan, your baby's got to go to Karitane.' I said, 'but I haven't seen her yet.' You see you put up with things then that girls wouldn't put up with now. I said, 'I've never seen her yet.' And so she said, 'we'll bring her in to see you on her way. I've rung your husband and he and your mother are going to get a taxi and take her up to Karitane.' No one in our family had a car then so they had to pay for a taxi to take her up. I just saw just a tiny little face in a bonnet and that was all when they brought her in. I don't think I even touched her. Then she went up to Karitane and I used to express MILK. Do you want to hear this? 446 DD: I used to express the MILK and I used to fill a lemonade bottle every day. My husband used to ride a bike to work then down to the Hospital Board. He would ride down the main street and when he saw a number five Anderson's Bay tram car coming he would get to the next stop with his bottle of milk wrapped it. He would give it to the driver and the driver used to take them to the taxi depot at Andy Bay terminus and then when they went up anywhere near there they would take the milk up. 450 +++ 2 text units out of 645, = 0.31% +++ Searching document int.Fountain, Kathleen Vere... KF: And I remember the influenza epidemic when my mother sent me down to some depot with MILK puddings. 2059 KF: A MILK pudding or, you know, a custard pudding or something. 2063 +++ 2 text units out of 2264, = 0.09% +++ Searching document int.Miss DF. & Miss GB.... GB: Shop for the weekend. Chocolate-MILK caramel was absolutely beautiful. 1297 +++ Searching document int.Mrs MG... But I remember the MILK coming. It was delivered and it wasn't hygienic either because it was clomped out of a big can into your milk jug. Nobody had fridges. We didn't have a fridge in the early days. I never liked milk because in the summer time mother scalded all the milk. She was very fussy. That helped it keep. During my time in Dunedin tuberculosis was quite rife. There were infectious wards at the hospital. Also there was a lot of goitre because the salt wasn't iodised. My father was aware of all these things. So mother was very careful with the milk. 384 +++ 1 text unit out of 484, = 0.21% +++ Searching document int.Mrs RG... +++ Searching document int.Grigg, Russell... G Mr Wells worked at some warehouse, I just forget the name now. But he had cows and he supplied us with MILK. 529 G Yes. His boys delivered MILK round about. 537 +++ 2 text units out of 845, = 0.24% +++ Searching document int.Grimmett, Bert... BG: Walking. If you left at the right time you could get the last tram ... from the Exchange, it left at about ten past eleven ... quite often when you went down on the last tram from Mornington you just missed - you could see it just going past the Century Theatre. so you, you took the - oh, it was - when you think of it, what a [indistinct] man, I was, when I was in the Harriers I had to run in the Otago Cross Country race one day, on Saturday. On the Friday night we went to a first skating ball held in Dunedin. It was done by A & T Burns, a firm that used to be down in Stuart Street, and we couldn't start early, because they had their session every night, and we didn't start till a quarter to eleven, eleven o'clock, the ball was started. When you called it a ball, nobody was dressed up. But it went to about two o'clock in the morning, so then I had to ... I walked up to Mornington with Rena and I suppose I got away from her about three o'clock, and I had to start the long trek to Anderson's Bay. I got as far as the Queen's Drive, I can vividly remember this, and I thought, my god I can't go any further, so I sat down and my le - legs were tied up in knots cause I'd never skated in my life before. You see, you're using different muscles. I sat down there and, it was that - a, a MILKman woke me up, and he stopped there, and I must have been slumped on this seat, because there was a seat there for the people waiting for trams, and he said, you've had a hard night, haven't you, and I said, what's the time, he said, nearly six o'clock, and I nearly died, oh my god. The old man will kill me, so anyway I got home, and I got in without him knowing. But I had to get up to go to work at eight o'clock, you know. Then run a five mile race in the afternoon. Those were the days! Ah, heck. 161 +++ 1 text unit out of 694, = 0.14% +++ Searching document int.Grimmett, Bert (2)... MILKman woke me up, and he stopped there, and I must have been 356 +++ Searching document int.Harris, Bill & Frances... WH: Father fir - 'cause first started on this big dairy farm, he use to supply in Timaru the hospital and that with MILK, untill he came to Dunedin, and he was auctioneer for a while in, in Alec Harris's in the war years, and he was mostly in the store in the property department. 703 WH: The same with the MILK, it was delivered in a big - 2888 WH: Uh Muhm always. [MC: RIGHT.] Yeah. Muhm did all the shopping, the clothing for the family and ah, that was all done and of course in those days your, your grocer and your baker came to your door and your MILK was delivered to your door, it was always and you put your billy out. It was always dipped out of a, a big [FH: Can.] can and there was no pasteurised at that stage, but Muhm always did all the shopping. 3433 MC: WAS YOUR MOTHER PART, WAS YOUR MOTHER, UHM SCALDING THE MILK OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? 3435 WH: I got this round my neck that, with MILK, round there. That was TB. [MC: RIGHT.] You see the cut round there [MC: YES] when I was a wee nipper that was, and also [FH: That was unpasteurised.] my father and my sister, there were four or five members of the family had the same thing, just through the, the tuberculosis. [MC: NOW, WHAT HAPPENS WITH -] Because the milk wasn't pasteurised. 3445 FH: It wasn't really known then as TB but we asked our doctor why the gland had to be removed. He said that would be TB with unpasteurised MILK, [MC: RIGHT, RIGHT.] you see. 3451 +++ 6 text units out of 4112, = 0.15% +++ Searching document int.Harrison, Ellen... EH: Both sides, mmmm. Now a strange thing happened when I was going through the old photos, I couldn't help seeing how, I mightn't have put enough tea in that because I don't take MILK. (MC: NO, THAT WILL DO ME JUST FINE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH). No, when I was glancing through these old photos i was really quite surprised to find that even when we were going on holiday I was school uniform. We obviously didn't have other clothes. We had other clothes to wear to church but we only had our school uniform. 517 +++ 1 text unit out of 596, = 0.17% +++ Searching document int.Horder, Vera May... *INT WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR MILK FROM?201 VH We used to put the billy down, I've forgotten his name, Mr Valpy, that's right, Mr Valpy was the MILKman, we used to put the billy down at night. Rutherfords used to deliver the coal and we used to get our groceries from McCrackens and our meat from Griffiths. Bread from Mr Foster. 203 +++ Searching document int.Jeffries, Margaret... MJ: Got settled down. I was feeding him, but apparently my MILK wasn't strong enough, and then they got me on to a formula, and he settled down. 1097 +++ 1 text unit out of 1427, = 0.07% +++ Searching document int.Mrs HJ... HJ: The two, two sons. One was a MILK-man, I think, down at Edendale, and I don't know what the other son did at Wyndham. 1536 +++ 1 text unit out of 1579, = 0.06% +++ Searching document int.Jory, Rita & Wellman, Louise... RJ: Yes. Oh it was lovely. We had our own MILK and cream. My husband learnt then to make butter. He made beautiful butter but he didn't make it with sour cream like a lot of people did and it was rank. We always made it with fresh cream and it was beautiful. We had our own butter. Then we got more hens. We had I suppose about thirty or forty hens. We had crates to send them to the market. We had a lovely time and the neighbours came and visited us. They were about a mile up a side road. 443 +++ 1 text unit out of 1261, = 0.08% +++ Searching document int.Miss CJ... CJ: No, I don't think she had anything delivered. Um, I can't recall anything delivered. The coal was delivered. That was always ordered through McCrackens. Ah, the MILK was delivered too in those days. It was billy milk before bottles were introduced.823 +++ Searching document int.Melville, Colin... GM: Yeah, the washing machine to me, then again, the fridge was such an asset for the MILK. We had it in the safe outside, yes, and we had to replenish milk daily and bread daily and everything and all those things were of course the products.... 873 CM: Of course it was very handy where we lived. You know, you just popped up, in fact there's a story about the MILK too because we were sitting at the table once and mother discovered that she had run out of milk, we were just about to have our pudding and she said to our elder brother, " Well look Ossie, take the jug and go over the road, straight over the road and buy a pint of milk," as it were. And anyway, we were sitting there waiting and waiting and waiting and the jolly boy hadn't came back and eventually he came back holding the handle of the jug and ah, he thought to himself this handle had no jug and he says, and mother said, "What happened?", he says, " oh, the jug fell off the handle," the jug fell off. 875 +++ 2 text units out of 1096, = 0.18% +++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '98... But, no she was a nice wee thing, but - no, she never went out for any messages, and then I used to - every Friday she'd get me to go and get cream up at the top of David Street, forgotten what they called it now, eh, MILK - they separated the milk and that, and I used to take this jug up, you know, with the money in it to buy cream for her son to take to his lady friend, but it was a [indistinct] jug and I'd - mum would - was nothing - and no drinking around our place and this [indistinct] jug, you know, whisky jug - 765 +++ Searching document int.Mrs NN... NN: Oh, well, you see, I lived in David Street, and then he bought this MILK factory in David Street, and that's how I meet him, you see, we'd, we'd go there to get the milk, anybody could go and buy their milk from there. And ... so that's how we met. And later on he had a cordial factory.. 220 *MC MMM. WHEN YOU WERE MARRIED, AND YOUR HUSBAND HAD - DID HE STILL HAVE THE MILK FACTORY THEN? 354 NN: Yes, he had the MILK factory. 356 *MC: MMM. TELL ME, YOUR HUSBAND RUNNING THE FACTORY, THE MILK FACTORY, HAD HIS FATHER DONE THE SAME KIND OF WORK?412 +++ 4 text units out of 723, = 0.55% +++ Searching document int.Mrs NN... JN: Mmm. Yes, I do know quite a bit. I know that, I know that he was on the MILK carts, I know, I know that, and he didn't like it either, he had to get - 134 MC: HOW OLD WAS HE WHEN HE WAS ON THE MILK CARTS? 136 JN: Yes, and I think he got - they got five shillings a week and their MILK free. 142 *MC: SO WHEN YOUR FATHER, OH, I'M SORRY, WHEN YOUR HUSBAND AND HIS BROTHER GOT THIS JOB ON THE MILK - 314 JN: I think, I think the young - the, the older brother he, he, he'd started work at some time, you know, before that, and he - it's rather strange when you think about it, he worked at the MILK place down the - not McBri - yes, near McBride Street it was, and he worked there amongst milk too. 328 MC: CAN YOU TELL ME WHETHER ... YOUR HUSBAND, WHEN HE HAD THAT MILK RUN JOB, WAS HE PAYING BOARD OUT OF THAT MONEY TO HIS MOTHER? 338 JN: Eh, well, I think he would probably have to get - it was five shillings a week, and that was every day of the week, and he probably had to pass over that and they got their MILK free. 340 *JN: Yes, that's right. Yes, yes, and at, at - he didn't like the MILK carts of course, and well, [indistinct] if you wouldn't, would he. His, his younger brother didn't seem to mind it quite so much, but he hated it, he hated getting up in the morning, and, you know, going out in the cold and all that sort of thing, and actually they, they, they didn't even have the gear to wear, I think they had a, a sugar bag over their head and all that sort of thing, you know, it wasn't good. 372 JN: Yes, well, I do know, 'cause he had to go to school after the, you know, after being there - he had to go to school, and, a, a man that, that, eh, oh, that, that was in his class, and he said to me one day, I've never ever seen anybody with chilblains like my husband had, and they were right up his legs and, you know, oh, he said, and his hands, that will be with being in the MILK carts, you see, yes, and getting wet - 392 JN: You see, that was the, the MILK - you know, the wetness and then, you know, and the cold. 416 JN: No, but must have been with the MILK carts and then, you know, and then go - and then of course then they, they just had to go to bed - straight to school, you know, and they, they wouldn't - perhaps I shouldn't say that, perhaps they wouldn't be really clad for those, they, they weren't in the milk carts. 432 +++ 11 text units out of 2248, = 0.49% +++ Searching document int.Norman, Annie... AN: No, MILK. 625 TB: MILK. 627 JW: Bread and MILK. 629 TB: AND WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT THE MILK? WHERE DID YOU GET THE MILK FROM? 641 AN: Oh, we had the MILKman. 643 TB: With the MILKman. 645 AN: MILKman called. 647 AN: Yes. Yes. You'd just give them the MILK. 651 AN: Yes. Yes. We had a billy, put it at the door and the MILKman would come around and - 655 TB: DID YOU BOIL IT? DID YOU BOIL THE MILK ONCE YOU STOPPED FEEDING THEM YOURSELF? 661 AN: Well, there was three women, Mrs Sinclair, Mrs Dillon and Mrs Ranger, they all had cows, and they'd MILK the cows in the morning and after they did their work they'd go down with the cows to Mucky Road and there was all the grass sidings and everything around there, open spaces that they could feed the cows on, and they'd take their knitting and they'd sit and talk, you know, and everything. Well, when it got near dinner time they'd come back with the cows and they'd go back again in the afternoon until it was milking-time. And then everybody used to go and buy the milk off them, there was the three of them and - but after it rained, with the cows, you know, walking along it made holes. Well, some parts were hard, well, you had to walk on these hard parts and dodge the holes where the water was all still in, and we used to go down there and there was a China-man's gardens there. 2270 +++ 11 text units out of 3011, = 0.37% +++ Searching document int.Paine, I.B.... *Int WAS MILK AND STUFF DELIVERED AS WELL? 325 IP Yes. I can remember raw MILK. The milkman had a horse and cart. He had great big milk cans. He'd bring round a can with a handle on it. It would take several gallons I suppose. He had a dipper inside and my mother would be standing at the back door. He'd dipper it out and have a wee chat with her then off he'd go. It was raw milk and I was having kidney x-rays once and although they weren't looking for this the test showed that I had come up against TB in the milk and overcome it. That would be because of the raw milk. The grocer would come round in the morning and Mum would give him the order. There were no phones of course. This was when we lived further away from the shops. Later on when I was a child I could run down to the shops so she wouldn't get it delivered. But he'd come over, get your order, go back to the shop, make them up and come and deliver them. The same with the butcher and the baker. The lighting of course. I remember the gas mantles. I can remember when the electricity was put into our place. Before we had electricity you'd have gas. You pulled a wee chain thing and lit it. In the bedrooms you'd have candles which could be quite dangerous. For ages we had a burn up by the mirror where my sister had been getting ready to go out with her boyfriend and she had the candle too near so the wall was charred. Fuel was all wood and coal because we had coal ranges. That heated the water as well. +++ Searching document int.Roebuck, Lew... LR Oh yeah that's right. I went to go to the Town Hall because they had all write-ups on the schemes you know. I used to do a bit of what I called ?? engineering, MILKing a few cows around for the local cockies. I was going through the Gardens on my way up and I met this old Chinese gentleman. He said to me, 'you on holiday?' I said, 'no Mr Lee, I'm going to look for work'. He said, 'you can work with me'. The amazing thing was the 'work with me' not 'for me'. All the farms - everybody anywhere - had people come to work for them while they would dash off and play golf or something. I walked back up the hill and I looked back down on the Gardens and thought why not. I didn't go any further. I bought a loaf of bread, a pound of butter. That cost half a crown. I remember that well, that's all I had to spend. So I came back down through the Gardens ... 63 +++ 1 text unit out of 438, = 0.23% +++ Searching document int.Shiel, Gerald... GS: They ran a MILK farm at St. Clair.767 +++ 1 text unit out of 1011, = 0.10% +++ Searching document int.Sidey, Stuart... SS: 'Cause it was a, you know, 'cause there were other members of the family there for a lot of the time. And then there was a gardener, and when my grandmother was alive there was also a, a rouse-about, or not a rouse-about, but a fellow who worked with the cows, because there was cows as well. And my grandmother used to make the cream and the MILK was all put in great big dishes and you skimmed off the cream to make the butter, and the cream was, oh boy, put that on black currants, beautiful. 685 +++ 1 text unit out of 807, = 0.12% +++ Searching document int.Smith, Jean... Mrs Smith: I'm think of it, I don't remember it in Baker Street but I do remember that there would be meat, there might even have been a fish cart that came and there were fruiterer's came with a horse and cart. Your MILK was a horse and cart delivery and not the hygienic thing then. Most definitely not, you'd be horrified now, and also there were itinerant, that 's how H & J Smith in Invercargill started, I think actually they started round the country and round this area with a hand cart (MC: right) taking bits and pieces round. Can't think of anyone else who delivered. 'Cause you had the Chinese laundry for the starched things and of course if the men folk belonged to the Free Masons they had these starched fronts and of course at one stage the men wore the starched collars, so there was always. You see your Dr Neins in Dunedin, I think he was involved, it was one of his family, the father was the Chinese laundry man here . (MC: in Gore) yes. 504 +++ 1 text unit out of 528, = 0.19% +++ Searching document int.Mrs ZO... We used to go down there for holidays occasionally only, Coda was actually born there and um I remember Coda and I had to go for the MILK somewhere, don't know why 'cause aunty, did she have a cow, I'm not sure, anyway we were going along this country road and it must have been a stoat, you know ran across, and we came racing back - it's a tiger, I can remember these winds and I can remember windy, windy days but a warm wind and us out in our nighties, just about taking off you know, flying round. 555 ZS: Oh heavens. Well I know the Moulin Rouge one because he bought that when I was 14 and then, when I had that peritonitis (MC: mmm) and went back when I was 15, and that's when it started mostly from there. The others, were younger, you know I would 12, ll's and 12's, something like that cause I remember when we went down Macandrew Bay, the lady in the shop next door, Mrs Brookman, she would um make us a drink of cocoa, made with MILK and we thought that was marvellous. And Coda and I were only girls, just, still school girls, so there we are. 697 ZS: No. I was lucky. I had plenty of MILK, I fed Mike until he was nine months and as she used to say, healthy, and I was healthy (MC; yes), so there were never any worries (MC: never any problems). No. 975 ZS: Ah, at the beginning it was men, but you'd see they send their money home to their families until they could afford them. Because they would never have been able to live as families, because they only lived in sort of like, not tin sheds, but there is a place built right up on the top, and it was never properly finished but they lived there. (MC: mmm) Course they grew all their own vegetables and stuff and I presume they would have MILK and eggs too but you didn't know much about what they were doing. But I remember the two that were still here when we got married, they lived way over where the gum trees.1043 +++ Searching document int.Mrs MTd... MT: Yes, and coal for the fire. Meat, I remember the butcher used to come. And MILK was a big item in those days. The milkman used to come and the butcher. 626 +++ 1 text unit out of 1216, = 0.08% +++ Searching document int.White, J... JW: Oh yes, yes. The grocer always delivered. The butcher come to the door. The MILKman come to the door. All that sort of thing. You didn't have to go and buy your milk. The milkman come to the door, back door with his bucket and pail. Yes, and the grocer delivered. He came on one day a week and take the order then it would be delivered the next day. 306 JW: Yes. Like a baby will burp and bring up a bit of MILK or food. Well, if they're on their side it will run out of its mouth. If its on their face it's going to. 1025 +++ Searching document int.Wilson, Florence... FW: Well, one of the things that perhaps I do remember that - now when I was a small child there - a Chinaman used to come around with a rod across his shoulder, carrying two baskets, one to each hand, cat - carrying vegetables and some of the boys used to run after him and grab a handful of green peas. Now of course people buy them frozen and a man used to come around with a trap and he sold skimmed MILK. 6 +++ 1 text unit out of 678, = 0.15% +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ Results of text search for 'milk' 'milk': ++ Total number of text units found = 111 ++ Finds in 43 documents out of 89 online documents, = 48%. ++ The online documents with finds have a total of 53249 text units, so text units found in these documents = 0.21%. ++ The selected online documents have a total of 95427 text units, so text units found in these documents = 0.12%. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++