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PILLAGING “BECOMING AN INDUSTRY.” i ! (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 25. For the theft of 27,000 cigai’ettes valued at £IOO from their ship’s cargo, two seamen, John Cormack, aged IS, and Albert Errington, aged 31, appeared before Mr Justice Cornish for sentence, in the Supreme Court, Wellington, to-day. Cormack was sentenced to two years in the Borstal and Errington to one year’s hard labour followed by six months’ reformative detention.
“It is impossible to pass a token sentence on you,” said his Honour. “Pillaging is becoming an industry and if the court’s punishment was light there 'would be no telling where the thing would end.”
His Honour said he agreed with a statement by counsel for Errington (Mr J. B. Bergin) that the ease with which the goods were disposed of in this country was a large contributing factor to the prevalence of the offence.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 243, 26 July 1947, Page 2
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