MILK MONEY STOLEN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29235, 20 June 1960, Page 10

MILK MONEY STOLEN

Thieves’ Raid In Auckland

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 19.

Between 250 and 300 housewives in the Hillsborough area of Auckland ‘had milk money Stolen from their boxes on Friday night Two milkmen in the area believe the raids—there have been four in about a year —are organised by at least three men using a car. Friday night’s raid produced a bigger haul for the thieves because many people, who usually leave tokens, had left additional money for week-end cream. On one previous occasion when thefts occurred a large car was seen driving slowly around streets in the area.

Tokens are available from five shops in the area, but some people still leave money out for milk.

Raids on city milk boxes have grown to the proportions of continual warfare, according to milkmen and milk vendors’ representatives. A few weeks ago boxes on five rounds in the Glen EdenHenderson area were pillaged in one night, said the secretary of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Vendors* Association (Mr D. R. Jaggar-Smith) today. Mr Jaggar-Smith said it was obvious that the men who had rifled the boxes on five rounds in the Glen Eden district must have used a car or some other vehicle. Money was taken from about 1000 houses in those raids. There had been many thefts on the scale of that at Hillsborough on Friday night.