WELLINGTON THEFTS.
TWO MEN CONVICTED. « (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON!, This iDay. Jack Stanley Miles, a ship's baker, and Thomas Bailev Wilson, a labourer, who were found on the wharf with 1001 b of flour and 11 tins of condensed milk, appeared at the Police Court charged with the theft of the goods from the steamer Mahana. Miles was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment and ordered to be placed aboard if the vessel sailed sooner. The other man got the benefit of the doubt of knowledge that the goods were stolen, lne goods were secreted in the side-car or a motor-cycle. T For the theft of a gramophone, valued at £5, from a house where, he spent the evening and apparently^had some drink, a fireman, Edward Dott, who had a good character from hw ship, was fined £2.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10806, 29 December 1926, Page 4
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