FILLAGING CARGOES.
TIMARU FIRMS' HEAVY LOSSES,.;' '■ ■'■ '"""" l t |V 'in' i' J '}v *} [BY TEIJEGRArH. —OWN COBBESPOM3ENT.J :' / CHBlSTCfirracH,' Wednesday- ' j '' The pillaging of ships' cargoes is still 'rife;; ; ■ at Timai-u, in spite of all that has bceflj ' ~ , done to check it. Mr. Wade, local manager for Laidlaw y'■',[■: and Gray, hardware merchants, opened '' .; up a case of goods from the Mamari, ■'■■'.. •; only to find that the contents (chiefly, ( ' carpenter's tools) had been dealt with by : : thieves in a disastrous manner. Box-afties box had been broken open, and part of the contents stolen, though the outside case bad been refastcned so neatly that} '. it was impossible to tell it had been" broken into. -. Another Timaru firm found, on opening up one of their cases, that about £30 •< • worth of goods had been stolen therefrom*' ;•: i'-'-";:' '/'■'■■■.'■' ;-:v'■:■:■. .v: 1 . ' ■■•'■■'■•■■'■'■ ' ,"' : ■';'"-':,:'■' ■*■ l'::v|" i ; " f:r' : > i :: •',-J i*;. 1 -*>3 iiiSflpS'l^iS ;-;■... • :.:■-■ ; ■■■.-.- • : ." . ■:"' r; *^'^.:fiSS^sss
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14923, 22 February 1912, Page 6
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148FILLAGING CARGOES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14923, 22 February 1912, Page 6
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