FIFTY YEARS' DEVELOPMENT IN DAIRY PUNT AND EQUIPMENT

The 1922 Milk and Dairies Act started a rapid development in pasteurizing and bottling plant, and the construction of many new dairies. The Model Working Dairy at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition helped to raise standards of performance and reliability. Further legislation ten years later produced new machines for this purpose. The Second World War hastened the introduction of the HTST system and discontinuance of low-temperature, long-time holding system. The paper describes the post-war demands for more congenial and less arduous ways of handling bottles, and further labour saving resulted in automatic mechanical handling plant. Iron, copper, brass and aluminium milk surfaces were all superseded by stainless steel. Speeds of machines were increased sevenfold and labour reduced/gal to about one-fourth of that customary in 1922.     

THE EFFICIENT USE OF LABOUR IN THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

The complex nature of the work force of the dairy industry and the problems in promoting efficiency and effectiveness are reviewed and the techniques of work study and work management evaluated. The contribution of a participative management approach involving all members of the work force is outlined and the need for the maintenance of a consistent personnel policy stressed. The problems of recruitment and the need for encouragement and training of school leavers and graduates is examined and the importance of regular appraisals as an integral part of their development emphasized ( Editor's summary ).