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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 79, 2 April 1914, Page 6

Poetic justice was dispensed from the Magisterial Bench at (Wellington, and it was not without ills humorous side. Recently ten cheeses Valued at £1 13/4 were missed from Nol 1 hold of the s.s. Rangatira in port. rThe theft was reported to the police, find deteotivee went into the firemen's quarters on that vessel. Searching the Imen'e lockers, they found cheese' in practically every one. They then lined all jthe firemen up, and explained to them /that every man in whose locker cheesel had been found waa liable to arreet. Two of the men voluntarily etood out. anjl said that they were the thievee. Thair object wae, they stated, to provide fall the firemen with extra cheese for slipper during the run •Home. The two culiritd, neither of whom had ever been in trouble before, pleaded

'•Guilty-, before th police explained t been recovered wh only a portion rei obvious. The Ran] on Monday, and n men to Raol, the them, and ordered of the ten cheese added; "You can

re Magistrate. The ;iat nine cheeses had 1 >le, but of the tenth inained. Its fate was ratira is to leave port it wishing to eend the Magistrate convicted j them to pay the coet Is between them. He keep the cheese."