ORGANISED PILFERING.
RESULT OF INVESTIGATIONS.
Bj Telegraph.—Press Asau—Copyright London, Dec. 4. The London Chamber of Commerce's' committee of investigation on pilferages from the docks, reports an enormous increase since the war*, involving an increase in insurance premiums. The losses are not due to petty individual thefts, but to well-organised gangs .of thieves and revivers. One shipping company is paying £250,090 annually for claims. The committee asks the Home Secretary to provide a special detective force, trained in tEei Jffints and methods of river thieves.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1920, Page 5
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86ORGANISED PILFERING. Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1920, Page 5
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