WHARF WORKERS FINED
BEER STOLEN FROM SHIPS CARGO (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 24. When the motor ship Hauturu was at New Plymouth on August 22, the mate about 6.30 p.m. saw two man leave the ship and enter a shed. They had suspicious bulges under their clothes. The police were informed, and Constable A. H. Canning found two bottles of beer in a shed. After keeping a watch till the work on the ship was finished for the night, the constable saw Frank Kelly and Ronald Neil Christensen, waterside workers, enter the shed. On being accosted, Christensen said he had gone into the shed to get a cycle. The constable took charge of the.beer. In the Police Court to-day Senior Sergeant C. M. Anniss said that when the Hauturu arrived at Wanganui next day it was found that three cartons had been emptied of three dozen bottles. Further inquiries were being made, and it. was possible that there would be other charges, against men working on the wharf. -v Kelly and Christensen admitted the theft, and each was fined £3 by Mr W. H. Woodward. S.M.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 8
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