CARGO PILFERING
SUGGESTION BY SJL "LOT COULD BE STOPPED" CP.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. A suggestion that waterside workers should band together to assist the police and protect the good name ox the majority of honest men by stopping cases of pilfering on the wharf, by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., .in the Magistrate's Court to-day when be sentenced a labourer to a month's imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of theft from a vessel on which he was working.
"Watersiders could stop a lot of this themselves," said the magistrate. "The majority of them must be honest men, but they seem to stand aside and let others get away with it. It may be that the men who do .this pilfering are the more aggressive of them, but if they banded together they could bring it to an end and stop the whole lot from getting a bad name."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 180, 1 August 1944, Page 6
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