PILLAGE OF CARGO
WATERSIDERS GAOLED HEAVY LOSS IN SHIP (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Three wharf labourers, Edward James Duffy, aged 26, John Horne, aged 58, and William Clingan Fraser, were charged in the Police Court today, the former two with pillaging cargo and the third with receiving. The police prosecutor stated that the pillage on this particular ship was heavy, the claims submitted to the Union Steam Ship Company being £235. Cargo had been transhipped from an overseas steamer at Wellington, and Dunedin was the first port of call. Some of the goods had been pillaged On the voyage out or at Wellington, but the cases had been renailed and repacked. Duffy was sentenced to lour months’ imprisonment, Horne to three months, and Fraser was remanded for the probation officer’s report.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20639, 20 August 1941, Page 9
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133PILLAGE OF CARGO Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20639, 20 August 1941, Page 9
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