PILLAGING CARGO

Grey River Argus, 25 November 1910, Page 3

PILLAGING CARGO

A LMEW METHOD

LINING CUT AWAY

•Pillaging of cargo- cpntLnues (says the Sydney Evening News) and every day at Sydney instances crop up showing how importers have ben robbed, and the mystery remains unsolved. Hitherto it has been the custom of the thieves to remove a portion of the top of a case and then take out Avhat tbey thought was a. fair thing. The boards would be replaced skilfully, marine surveyors and others being misled by the clever manner in which the case was 'fixed up again. This morning", however, a new xr-.t'eh od was discovered. . Messrs Laskar and Lasker, of George-street, Sydney, received from London some cases of goods and had taken delivery. Nothing appeared to be the matter with these cases, butt when tliey were opened it was found that the thieves had clared out a good lot of silk goods. They had not operated from the top, but from the side of ithe case near the bottom. A iboard was removed and the zinc lining cut to allow of a .hook or'a hand to go through. It was undoubtedly a hook, which was mainly used, for the cardboard- coverings of the goods were jagged and broken. A puzzling feature, howevr, was ithat the string which kept the cardboard covering in place was intact. In. view of the latest dodge, it is suggested that attention should be paid to the bottom, top, and sides, of the cases when examination '.is being made, prior to delivery.