CARGO BROACHING RIFE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 4

CARGO BROACHING RIFE.

TUEAKINA'S' LAST. SHIPMENT. ;/■ In spite.of the combined efforts of shipping companies, police, insurance, "companies, . consignors: and consignees,. cargo broaching still appears to afford profitable, if somewhat risky scope, for ~ the energies, of a. certain section. entrusted with the custody of goods consigned fov transit by, sea. The last Voyage of tlin New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Turakina from London was .a" case in point, some of the wholesale firms in the city being particularly heavy.losersBusiness houses-importing boots and articles of wearing apparel, are generally .the heaviest losers, and, although in most cases losses, from pilfering are covered, by insurance, disappointment. and more or less, dislocation of, business .arrangements .are sometime occasioned bythe theft of; particular lines .ordered for, certain seasons. '-:."'.' . : ' 1 In the case of the shipment inv question, Messrs. Birig, Harris and' Co., appear; to have been the principal/ some thirty-six pairs, of women's boots having .disappeared. .'■ Messrs. Sargood,. Son, . and Ewan, general drapers, esti-' mate/their. loss at, froarv.£lo to £12. Messrs. /Kirkcaldie and Stains .at ..£l2 75., and.other city houses, are losers, to a minor degree.' '■■'."■■"■ ': Mr. N.. Galbraith, - local manager for the shipping company, puts down .the total pillage, at, some £50 ■ worth,'- and does- not .regard this loss as exceptional for a big-boat such-as the Turakina, although some of the firms mentioned may have■;suffered to,.a greater, extent, than is usual.. ■." .■;'■■■■■:" , : '■'.'-, ■.-'■■",