WATERSIDER’S THEFT
Smoked Fish in Brief-bag By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 13. Hector Payne Dixon, aged 33, a waterside worker, pleaded guilty and was fined £2 for stealing smoked fish, valued at 4/2, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company. The police said that while watersiders were loading siuoked fish in cartons into the freezer on the steamer Niagara yesterday a detective accosted Dixon and asked him what he had in his brief-bag, which was found to be full of smoked fillets. In pleading for leniency, Mr. Sullivan said that accused would no longer be employed on the waterfront.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 5
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100WATERSIDER’S THEFT Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 5
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