CARGO PILFERING.
In nearly even port in New Zealand merchants and shipping companies incur considerable loss through the pilfering of merchandise in transit. For every case detected a hundred is not sheeted home. At the Auckland Supreme Court last week a member of a ship’s crew and a wharf labourer were found guilty of cargo pilfering, and one was sentenced to two years imprisonment and the other to eighteen months hard labour. In passing sentence his Honour said, “this sort of thing has got to be put down.” He further remarked that defalcations of this kind were passed on by shipping companies to honest people, and in these hard times honest people could not afford to keep men like those convicted idle.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1068, 25 February 1913, Page 2
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122CARGO PILFERING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1068, 25 February 1913, Page 2
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