WATERSIDER GAOLED
CHARGE OF THEFT OF TEA
(P.A.)
AUCKLAND, This Day,
On a charge of stealing;, a lib packet oi! tea valued at 4s 4d. the property of the Union Steam Ship Company, Thomas Joseph Harris, aged 55. a watersider, was sentenced to two v weeks' imprisonment. He pleaded not guilty, denying that he handled any tea while working on a ship early on Friday morning. Mr. J. Morling, S.M., said that he accepted a constable's evidence that he saw Harris place a packet of tea on a ledge on the unlighted side of the ship and later saw him put the packet under his coat. When appyoached by the constable he threw the tea into the.water, saying: "My word is as good as yours." The packet was recovered from the harbour and the police discovered later that a carton of tea had been broached.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1942, Page 3
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