SEAMAN’S THEFT OF SHIP’S STORES
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day
“I cannot overlook the seriousnessof this matter,” said Mi* A. M. Goulding S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today when sentencing Alfred Edward Lark, aged 40 a seaman, to 21 days’ imprisonment for the theft of ship’s stores, including butter, honey, tinned soup and jam and soap of a total value of £3, the property of the Holm Shipping Company. Sub-inspectoi' Abel said the accused, a fireman on the Holmlea, took the goods while the ship’s storeman was absent, and later gave a parcel containing them to his wife on the wharf.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1947, Page 4
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