STOLEN ARMY STORES
Grocer Guilty 0£ Receiving (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 22. After a retirement of seven minutes in the Supreme Court at Auckland today, a jury found Mil ton Edward Mulligan, aged 31. a grocer, guilty of receiving goods valued at £6O 9s 7d, the property of the New Zealand Army, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Mr Justice Shorland remanded him for sentence. The exchange by Army quar-termaster-sergeants of surplus stores for “delicacies for the men” was common, both overseas and in New Zealand, Mulligan said in evidence. Mulligan said he had served in J-Force, as well as being a member of the Permanent Army in New Zealand. Though he took no actual part in it, he knew that the trading of surplus Army rations was quite common. He knew Quartermaster-Serg-eant G. A. Knox, who was found guilty last week on two counts of theft of Army stores, and when Knox approached him on the subject of exchange, Mulligan said he saw nothing wrong in it.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28284, 23 May 1957, Page 17
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