CARGO PILFERING
STONES WRAPPED IN PAPER AUSTRALIAN FIRM'S LOSS News received front Brisbane states that cobble-stones wrapped in paper, not the spark plugs they expected, were found to be the contents of a case which was unloaded from an overseas ship by the employees of Martin Wilson Brothers, Limited, a motor accessory firm in Brisbane. The loss, which is estimated at, £IOO, was the result of clever pilfering. The case was one of three, and it should have contained about 1000 spark plugs. Around the outside of each case was a metal seal, which ordinarily would have lo be broken to reach the contents. The plugs were consigned from an American Jirm through New York, and probably had been about two months on the journey. The fact that American newspapers were used as packing to prevent the stories from rattling, indicated that the pilfering occurred before the case was loaded on the ship.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21258, 11 August 1932, Page 11
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153CARGO PILFERING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21258, 11 August 1932, Page 11
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