STOLEN FROM CARGO

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 25 November 1941, Page 8

STOLEN FROM CARGO

BEER AT NEW PLYMOUTH MEN FINED £3 EACH <J’qrvpriiis Association.) f\ T EW PLYMOUTH, this day. Vhe.q the motor ship Hauturu was at Js 7 ew Plymouth on August 22 the male at sboqt 6.30 p.ny saw two men leave the'ship and enter a shed. They had suspicious bulges under their clothes so tire police were informed and Constable A. H. Canning found two bottles of beer in the shed. After keeping watch till work on the ship was finished for the night, the constable paw Frank Kelly , and Ronald Neil Christensen, watersiders, enter the shed and begin searching. Each of them said he had a bottle there. On being accosted Christensen said he had gone into the shed to get a bicycle. The constable took charge of the beer. Senior-Sergeant C. M. Anniss said that when the Hauturu arrived at Wanganui next day it was found that three cartons had been empted of their three dozen bottles. These two men were not the ringleaders, but further inquiries were being made and it was possible there would be other charges against men working on the wharf. Kelly and Christensen admitted the theft in the New Plymouth court to-day. Each accused was fined £3 by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M.