PILFERING IN THE DOCKS.
WELL ORGANISED GANGS.
LONDON, December 4
The committee of the London Chamber of Commerce, which is investigating the matter of pilfering at the docks, reports an enormous increase since the war, involving an increase in insurance premiums. The losses are not due to petty individual thefts, but to tin; operations of well-orjranised gangs of thieves and receivers. One shipping company is paying £250,000 annually for claims. The committee asks the Home Secretary to provide a special detective force, trained in the habits and methods of river thieves (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 291, 6 December 1920, Page 5
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