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It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when a satisfactory
non-returnable container can be produced economically.
Two complaints received this year concerned cement in bottles and
no doubt these were originally delivered to building sites. The collection
of bottles from such sites is, I understand, a problem for the
dairy companies.
Another related to pupae cases of the Drosophila buskii (a fruit fly).
The female fly is attracted to milk bottles which contain dregs of sour
milk left by the previous customer. The eggs are laid so that the
larvae when they hatch out can feed on the sour milk residue. In due
course they pupate and the pupae cases are cemented firmly to the
sides of the bottle. Unless they are present in large numbers they are
not easily seen as the bottles come wet from the washing machine
and it is not until the bottles are filled with milk that they become at
all obvious.
The washing of the bottle by the customer before returning it to
the milkman would appear to be the simple solution to this problem.
CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956
In January, 1959, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government
issued a circular, No. 5/59, in which it made certain parts of the
country black areas. These black areas are areas in which the smoke
problem was considered to be acute. This circular also requested
Councils in these black areas to make a programme to include the
whole or part of their district in a smoke control area. The East
Barnet Urban District was included as a black area although it is on
the fringe of the area which covers the whole of the metropolis.
In consequence of this circular a report was made to the General
Purposes Committee in April, 1959, and a scheme was placed before
them proposing that the whole of the Urban District should become
a smoke control area in 12 years. In the report it was suggested that
the district should be divided into twelve zones and that one zone
should be made a smoke control area each year. In that report a
programme for the first five years was suggested. This programme
dealt with the central and southern portion of the district but did not
quite make the whole of that portion of the district a smoke control
area, two zones being outstanding which under the main proposal
would take a further two years, being seven in all.
The Committee considered this report and decided to recommend
to the Council that it should be accepted. The Council subsequently
accepted the report and the Ministry was informed and the programme
for the first five years forwarded to them.
At the same time as the report on the Clean Air Act was made to
the Committee the details for area No. 1 were given. This area consists
of that part of the district which is bounded by Cat Hill on the south,
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