MILK VENDOR FINED.
TAMPERING WITH BOTTLES. EARLY MORNING INCIDENT. A charge of committing mischief by interfering with another vendor's milk wns prefererd against Gerald Douglas Hunter, milk vendor, in the Police Court yesterday. Accused, who did not appear, entered a plea of not guilty. Sub-Inspector Shanahan soid another vendor named Murray complained to tho Newmarket police that his milk was being interfered with, with the result that a constable wns set to watch a house where both Murray and Hunter delivered milk. He saw Murray deliver some milk in a sealed bottle, and at about 5.35 a.m. Hunter came along and also left some milk. Hunter then took Murray's bottle arid poured (ho milk into a dirty boltle, which he loft at the house. Hunter bad been before the Court bofore. In a letter. Hunter said that both he and INJurray delivered milk to tho one house. Murray was delivering milk in his bottles, so he proceeded fo get them back by tipping the milk into one of Murray's bodies, nnd taking his own con tniner which Murray had been using. Defendant was fined £5 and costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 14
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