SHIP’S CARGO STOLEN
«PILLAGING BECOMING INDUSTRY ”
JUDGE’S COMMENTS ON THEFT
OF CIGARETTES
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 25. For the theft of 27,000 cigarettes, valued at £lOO, from their ship’s cargo, two seamen, John Cormack, aged 18, and Albert Errington, aged 31, appeared before Mr Justice Cornish for sentence in the Supreme Court, Wellington, to-day. Cormack was sentenced to two years in a Borstal institution and Errington to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by six months’ reformative detention. “It is impossible to pass a token sentence on you,” said his Honour. “Pillaging is becoming an industry, and if the Court’s punishment was light there would be no telling where the thing would end.” His Honour said hp agreed with a statement bv counsel for Errington (Mr J. B. Bergin) that the ease with which the goods were disposed of in this country was a large contributing factor to the prevalence of the offence.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25246, 26 July 1947, Page 10
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