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SERIOUS LOSSES

SUFFERED BY DOMINION MANUFACTURERS PILLAGING OF CONSIGNMENTS. BETWEEN NORTH & SOUTH ISLANDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 23. Manufacturers throughout New Zealand are organising in an effort to combat serious losses occurring annually in the pillaging of consignments of goods passing between the South and North Islands. All members of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association have been circularised and urgently requested to supply full details of their losses during the past three months. The council of the Manufacturers’ Federation will meet at Dunedin on Wednesday, and at this meeting pillaging will be discussed. Losses reported in Christchurch include slippers, whisky, stockings, handbags. frocks, blouses, shirts and various forms of men’s wear. It was said today that the loss would run into thousands of pounds every year. The pillaging is so systematically carried out and on so lai;ge a scale that an impression has grown among manufacturers that it is on an organised basis. Strength was given to this assumption, it was added, by the fact that tools used in the pillaging of cargo were specially made. Individuals caught in possession of ! these tools had been brought to justice, but there had been no decline in the volume of loss. There was also ample evidence of expert methods used by the pillagers.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1941, Page 3

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SERIOUS LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1941, Page 3

SERIOUS LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1941, Page 3

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