ALLEGED CARGO PILLAGING.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 249, 20 October 1924, Page 5

ALLEGED CARGO PILLAGING.

WHAT A SEARCH REVEALED. MAX ARRESTED AND REMANDED. During the latit few days Detectives .Uciiugli and iiarling have been uusy investigating a case of alleged cargo pillaging from, the Auckland wharves. Uii fciaiurday night they visited and searched the dwelling of a watcrsider, and as a result found a large quantity of goods, ranging from ladies' and children's underclothing to tins of fruit, and including paient medicines and foods, chocolates, crockery, tallow, gas mantles, and patent leather. They also ,| took a man into custody. ' At the Police Court this morning, ! before ilr. J. W. Poynion. S.M., Harold I Cyril H. Francis (35) appeared, ' charged with stealing the goods, the ' property of a shipping company, or companies. The value of the goods was not mentioned in the charge sheet. On the application of Chief-Detective C'ummings, a remand until next week ' was granted, bail being allowed in the j sum of £200. [ DISCOVERY ON MAHANA. ' GOODS FOUND IN STOKEHOLD. : On Saturday afternoon a quantity of clothing and cutlery was discovered ; hidden among bunker coal in the stoke- ' hold of the overseas vessel Mahann, . which arrived from Liverpool am! ' berthed at the Prince's wharf last . 'VnHnesday. The goods, which were secreted near Ihe boilers, were so hiiilly diimaired by heat that il is impossible to estimate ( their value. It is considered that the -nods were not secreted during the time | that the Mahana has been at Auckland.