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Shannon News, 13 August 1926, Page 3

• Thefts of articles from broached or damaged cargo in ships at Lyttelton are growing more serious, according to statements made in the Christchuich Magistrate’s Court, when two wajer* siders were sent to gaol. Thomas Bates (aged>44) pleaded guilty to stealing a "woman’s costume valued at 19s 6d, and was ' sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour. The other watersider, Frederick Wells (aged 25) was charged wit a the theft of two electric irons valued at £3 10s, and with stealing at Lyttelton on April 18th five and a half pairs of stockings and three women’s garters valued at £1 7s 9d'. The magistrate remarked that in the latter case theie was some evidence of systematic thieving on the part of the accused. Wells on the first charge was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment and on the second to one month, the sentences to be cumulative. A metal barrow made by a boy attending the Ivowhai Junior High Shool was displayed at the recent Auckland Winter Show, and to the exhibit was attached the boy’s name, and also a notification that he wanted to be apprenticed to a trade. "When this fact was mentioned at a meeting ofhouseholders at the Ivowhai Junior High. School, one of the parents said that it was a disgrace to the country that a boy should have to put his name on a barrow in an endeavour to get work. It was time that something was done in connection with apprentices, as there were cases of boys waiting to be apprenticed to the building trade, but they could not be placed. On behalf of a boy he had- sent an application to the Labour Department last July, but so far had received no answer. The headmaster said that the boy’s application on the barrow had proved successful, and had resulted in him getting the employment that he sought.