CARGO PILLAGING.
There may have been special considerations which prompted ~an Auckland magistrate yesterday to give four seamen convicted of cargo pillaging the option of , a fine, but it" must be doubted whether such punishment any longer meets this class of offence. . Pillaging of a highly-organised character is causing heavy loss to the commercial community. There is no reason to suppose that more than a fraction of it takes place in New Zealand waters, but this does not lessen the responsibility of the New Zealand courts for imposing preventive sentences on offenders who come under their jurisdiction. Imprisonment without the option of a fine and the loss of maritime employment would appear to be the only means of checking a class of crime which is easy of perpetration and difficult of detection.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17594, 6 October 1920, Page 6
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132CARGO PILLAGING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17594, 6 October 1920, Page 6
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