MEAT SCANDAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1942, Page 8

MEAT SCANDAL

COLOSSAL THEFTS

LIVERPOOL DISCLOSURES

LONDON, January 20

When told at Liverpool City Quarter Sessions that imported meat had been stolen on a colossal scale at Liverpool docks, the recoioer. Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K.C., said: "It is obvious thai there is something going on which is so bao tnat it might have been organised by the fifth column." Police Inspector Culshaw said that from five ships which had arrived in Liverpool 2153 carcases of lamb 'or packages of beef had been stolen within two months to the total value of £5070. The recorder sentenced to four years' penal servitude each William Alfred Eales, 40, master butcher, Liverpool, and Donald Cooper Shaw, of Warrington, Ministry of Food supervisor of the distribution of meat at Warrington, both of whom had pleaded guilty to receiving stolen meat. A motor driver was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. The recorder said: "One wonders what woiiiCi be the position of these men it they happened to be citizens of a country uke Russia, who takes the war seriously. "After two years of war, when Russia has burned 2000 miles of her country to help not only herself but her partners in the war, the fact that we are now only beginning to clean out these conditions at the Liverpool docks is nothing short of a public scandal."