CARGO PILLAGING BRINGS HEAVY SENTENCE
. WELLINGTON, July 25. . For the theft oi 27,000 cigarettes valjieAat £10.0 sfrcpi their ship'ft , caT^o,. tiyro seameh, yJohn' Corihack,' aged -18,' and Albert Brrington, aged 31, appeared before Mr. Justiee Cornish for sentence in the Supreme oourt, Wellington, today. Oormack v/as sentenced to two years in Borstal and Errington to one year's hard labour follov/ed by six months' reformative detention. "It is impossible to pass a token sentence on you," said his Honour. ' ' Pillaging is becoming an industry and if the court's punishment was light there would he no telling where the thing would end." His Honour said he agreed with the statement by coiuisel for Errington (Mr. J. B. Bergin) that the ease with which the goods were disposed of in this country was a large contributing factor to the prevalence of the offence.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1947, Page 5
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