THEFT OF BEER.
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, October 6. “Men in the service of the Railways Department are the custodiarfs of the goods that pass through their hands and are in honour bound honestly with those goods, said Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., when imposing sentence of six weeks’ imprisonment on three railway employees who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to the theft of a crate containing two dozen bottles of beer. The accused were John Leonard Lippert, aged 26. a porter, John Erie Lavender, aged 30, a porter, and uliam Stewart Smith, aged 37, a shunter. The police said that complaints were continually being received about the theft of goods consigned by rail, and the offences were extremely difficult to trace.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 305, 7 October 1942, Page 2
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