Judge’s Comment On Cargo Thefts
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, Feb. 10. “These thefts are common. The rewards are high and the offences are difficult to detect, and I doubt if the police receive the support they should in stopping them,” said Mr. Justice Kennedy, in sentencing Raymond Noel Morgan, a donkeyman on the freighter , Waipahi, who was implicated in the theft of clothing material valued at £362 from a ship to 12 months reformative detention. His Honor granted an application for appeal by counsel for Philip James Rumble, a side worker, who appeared for sentence on a simHar chargeThe grounds for appeal w that the evidence amounted to suspicion only and that the verdict was unreasonable.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 February 1947, Page 5
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