WHISKY STOLEN FROM SHIP
HOLD ENTERED TH ROUGH VENTILATOR ■ PA) AUCKLAND. Septembei c The elevc: theft of six cases of Scotch \vh'i c ky from the Fordsdale while berthed > in Auckland was described before Justices oi the Peace, in the Magistrate s Court ] at Auckland to-day when a seaman on the ship Nonnan Graham, aged 2a. was ■ chaiged with the theft of 12 hotties of I ••vhiskx valued at £72 Tn a statement the accusea said that nc- and fou- others at midnight on Aucuct 15 went to No. 7 hold, which was 1 •’ttenec town The only access was t imugii a ventilator They lifted the top of the ventilator and me man lowered : in.self by a rope In hall an hour he h-d handed or the -nntents s ’x aleadeu guilt: and was onimitted to the Supreme Court foi sen- . tence. Bail was allowed in a surety oxi £2OO. I
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25590, 3 September 1948, Page 3
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