THEFT OF SHIP’S STORES
THREE FIREMEN FINED. When Harry Ashford and George Harold Gent, two firemdn on the s.s. Dorset, were seen by Constable Isbister coming off the Queen's Wharf, each was carrying a' parcel. They were stopped and. questioned, and ths parcels were examined. It was found that Ashford 1 had in his package groceries to the value of Ils. 3d., and Gent's parcel contained groceries valued at Bs. 9d. The men in- ■ formed the constable the groceries were given to them by Henry Eyre, a fireman on the Tawhiti, and consisted of unused stores issued to the stokehold. The three men appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr. F. K.. Hunt, S.M. Eyre was charged with the theft of stores value 205., the property of the Union Steam Ship Company, and wag convicted and fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. Ashford and Gent were each fined £2 for receiving the stores.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 306, 20 September 1921, Page 6
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155THEFT OF SHIP’S STORES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 306, 20 September 1921, Page 6
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