CARGO PILLAGING
£15 FIXE IMPOSED
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day
On a charge of the theft of two tins of corned mutton, valued at 10/, from a ship at New Plymouth, Albert Edward Reesby, a carpenter, who pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning, was convicted and fined £15. Two attache cases were found in the shelter deck of a ship by one of the officers at an early hour this morning. In one there was a leg of mutton that had been cut from the carcase, and, in the other a thermos flask and two tins of mutton. A constable set a watch and later saw accused open one of attache cases and take out tins of mutton. The constable accosted him and he admitted taking meat from an open case in the hold of the ship. Senior-Detective E. C. Jarrold, said there had been a good deal of complaints of cargo pillaging in the country lately.
In imposing a fine, the presiding justices said they realised the seriousness of the offences. They hesitated to inflict a term of imprisonment, but had to inflict a penalty that would be a punishment to him and a warning to others.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 307, 29 December 1942, Page 6
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