WATERFRONT THEFTS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 66, 10 December 1921, Page 8

WATERFRONT THEFTS

THREE. MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT.-

By Telegraph —Press Association. Westport, December 9. In. (sentencing a waterside, w'orker named Hale to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, Mr. Maunsell, the Magistrate, said it was a notorious fact that thefts were rampant on all tho waterfronts in the Dominion. In making that statement, he did not wish to cast a. reflection on all waterside workers, the majority of whom, he believed, were honest citizens. One thief made a lot of trouble. He could not undeistand. the urtons admitting such men. Ho would like to have authority to prohibit Halo working on the wharf, as his membership was detrimental to the union.

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