RAILWAY PILLAGERS
N.S.WJUcket (Rec. 7.0.) SYDNEY, May 2. Black markets have in the past year been supplied with one hundred and twenty thousand pounds w° r tn of goods stolen from the New South Wales railways, according to a statement by a railways official, lhe goods stolen have included wines, spirits, beer, clothing, petrol, tobacco and motor tyres.. The official said that railway thieves were organised into gangs, and they worked on a State-wide basis, and the railway _ authorities , have now started a big drive to clean U A th wfSg has been issued to tne puglic that the pilfering is not restricted to the goods trucks, and the Department is advising travellers to guard continually their luggage on the trains and on .the railway platLoriiis* Some travellers have recently been robbed of their luggage, and left, with onlv the clothes they wore. One of the biggest hauls made recently by the thieves was two thousands pounds , worth of tobacco consigned to a nor- J them town.
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Grey River Argus, 3 May 1944, Page 4
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