‘Secret Device’ To Beat Thieves
Milk money thieves are not a great problem in Christchurch because milkmen use “a secret device” to catch them, according to Mr P. A. Caithness, the vendors’ representative on the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board.
“We do get bouts of thieving when people put out cash instead of tokens, but we have a secret device that is quite effective and the details of which we are not prepared to divulge,” he said at yesterday’s meeting of the board.
Mr Caithness made this comment when the chairman (Mr W. E. Olds) produced a clipping from a Wellington newspaper which stated that milk thieves in the Porirua area were netting £35 a week. “We should run a campaign here and urge people to take up tokens,” Mr Olds said. “If £35 a week is being taken in one district in Wellington it must be pretty tough,” he added.
There would always be a certain amount of thieving, and the real and effective answer was to put out tokens, said Mr Caithness.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31394, 13 June 1967, Page 14
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