PILLAGING FROM TRAINS
CONCERN OF POLICE EXPRESSED
(New Zealand Press Association)
GREYMOUTH. June 19.
Police concern at organised pillaging of goods on the Midland railway line, possibly in the Otira district, was expressed by Detective-Sergeant R. S. Smith in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth this morning. He was giving evidence in a case in which two engine drivers from Otira were charged with the theft of two sacks of potatoes valued at £5 ss. One was charged further with the theft of two nylon shirts valued at £3 Bs. earlier this year. The charges were against Allan John Pearsley, aged 29, married, who admitted the theft of potatoes and the shirts and Timothy Michael Tangney, aged 38, married, who pleaded guilty to theft of the potatoes. Both were remanded by Mr Raymond Ferner. S. for sentence tomorrow morning. Detective-Sergeant Smith said the two sacks of potatoes had been found in a darkened corner of the power house at Otira. On the night of May 19 and 20 last it had been found that they had been removed. A police party subsequently found the sacks at the homes of the accused, who had admitted removing them from a consignment to Hokitika and storing them in the power house.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27999, 20 June 1956, Page 9
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