CARTERS' TRADE WAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16837, 28 December 1928, Page 2

CARTERS' TRADE WAR

SEARCH FOB MAN . AMAZING MELBOUBNE SCENES MELBOURNE, Dec. 20. Things are getting exciting amongst i the "milkW' round Colmrg. Last night, when a milk caarter disappeared for a few hours, the police were turned out to look for him. Mysterious disappearance of the driver of a milk wagon named Young, and the subsequent finding of his wagon on n lonely '.mad at Campbellfield, late last night, led the police to believe that the Cohnrg milk war had broken out again. ,Young, however, turned up early ' this morning, and offered a satisfactory explanation of his absence. He ' is employed by T. ,T. Chard, a dairyman, *to colle'et. milk in Fawkner Broadmeadows"and Campbellfield. Yestreday ho left at f> p.m. and should have returned! at 9> p.m., but as he did not put in: an appearance by midnight his wife became anxious-, and reported his disappearance to the police. The motor patrol' scourI ed the district, and early this morning his wagon, loaded with milk cms wa3 found on the roadside at Campbellfield-,,: where he had- apparently- stopped to pick up several cans of milk, which were standing beside I the' .Whittle. ALL SORTS OF TRICES Marks of the wheels of another heavv-vehicle at the side of the lorry led the police to believe that Young had met with foul play. For many months the milkmen in Coburg district have been carrying on a trade war. It is alleged that they have been stealing one another's customers, watering the milk left on doorsteps by their opponents, turning on the. taps of cans in their rivals' carts, while the drivers wore absent, and event assaulting •each: other in their eagerness to gain custom. It is related that on one occasion, when three milkmen met at one door of a newly-arrived householder, they became so enthusiastic, that before the householder could open his door the ij . rival milkmen- came to blows on the . verandah. Horses have been driven . into quarries during* the temporary absence of their lawful attendants, I arts and cans smashed; and the pools t the bottom of disused brick quariea. adulterated by- the addition, of