SHOP PILFERING
POSITION IN BRISBANE DIVERGENT OPINIONS The opinions of managers of large departmental stores in Brisbane differ on the question of the degree of stealing from the counters and display stands that occurs in'that city.
Tho principals and managers of several big firms lately discussed a message from Sydney, in which it was reported that shoplifting in that city causes losses amounting to about £15,000 yearly. One manager said the •position was not nearly so bad in Brisbane. Another said there wore scarcely any thefts at his store, and these of little consequence. However, a director of one of tho largest firms in Brisbane said emphatically that shoplifting was worse there, in his opinion, than anywhere else in Australia. He attributed ; this to the leniency of magistrates, who, ho said,. took altogether too sentimental a view of such cases.
Criminal women, old offenders, had no compunction in making a business of this systematic thieving ,when they knew that the chances of receiving serious punishment were most remote, said the speaker. In such circumstances, it would take a regiment of shop detectives, to prevent pilfering. A few stern sentences by the magistrates would have a most wholesome effect.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 12
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198SHOP PILFERING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 12
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