'Why do you think he was employed by a cartage contractor?'

He was educated by correspondence and at Miling State School and later worked as a cartage contractor while studying accountancy.

He was born in Montreal, Quebec and became a cartage contractor and manager, particularly of Healy Brothers Ltd.

Mallet had a'iked, and La Touche had been going to reply with some asperity that cartage contractors were not uncooamonly found to employ carters, when the pertinence of the other's question struck him.