PILLAGING OF CARGO.
POSITION AT LYTTELTON. STATEMENT BY CHIEF DETECTIVE, [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION-] CHRISTCHUBCH. Tuesday. " Pillaging of cargo at Lyttelton wharves is becoming so bad that the police intend dealjng with future cases under the Crimes Act,, which allows a penalty of fourteen years' imprisonment," said Chief Detective Gibson, in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Thomas Rates was charged with stealing cargo at Lyttelton. Bates was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and Frederick Wells, against whom there were two charges, was given two months' imprisonment on the first and one month on the second, the sentenes to be cumulative^.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19391, 28 July 1926, Page 10
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