Pillaged Linen Cargo

Chronicle (Levin), 25 July 1947, Page 4

Pillaged Linen Cargo

The theft of.li'hen frbm a ship's cargb wds admitted at a sitting bf the Lyttelton. MagiStrate's Cburt yesterday. -The men werfe Hugh Duhlbp Davidsbn, ship's fireman, of rio fixed abbde, and. Dehnis Store, a fireriiafi ih the ship Sdrfilamu. The fevidfinbfe showed that- Store was seen femergihg from one of the Sp,miamu's holds ar midnight on Wedhesday. The polibe were called ahd fbund the nifefi with the lineii iri their pbsgfessibn. it had been takbii ffoffi a cdse that had been brokfen bperi. Bbth actused pleaded guilty and wefe. cbmmittfed to thfe Siipreme Cburt fbf sentence. Wangaiiella Next Year An authoritative estifnate says that it will probably be May or June next' year before the Wanganella resumes the Tasman run,even if normal labotir conditibns apply when repair work commences with the arrival of pre-, fabricated steel parts from England; Five hundre'd tons of this matferial have been ordfered frbm the Unitcd Kingdom and the latest word is that its cdnstruction has begun and it may arrive at the end oi this, year. The task of fitting will take from five to six months; this- being a permanefit.job and thfe largest of its kind in Kew Zealand mafitime history.