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CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 14. An example had to be made of prisoners, not so mucli to punisli them, as to deter others, aud stamp out the thieving of goods in transit, said the Chief Justice (Sir Ilumphrey O'Leary) in the Supreme Court. sentencing three railway porters to eight months' hard labour on a joint charge of stealing a bale of lilankets, the property of Lhe Railways Department, and a taxi drivor to six months, for receiving ionu: of the blanlcets. The taxi drivor, Claude Yincent Dennis, colhipsed iu the dock on hearing the sentence. The porters wqre Samuel David Anderson, aged 29, Cyril James Lennon, aged 29, and Thonuis Levin Bunn, aged 37. "I must show that thefts of this kind are not lightly to be emliarked on," said the Chief Justice. "If such penalties have no effect, Judges will have to consider increasing them." The railvvaymen by their acts, he said, had brought into disrepute their fellow workers, who were a very line bod y of men.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 February 1947, Page 5
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