PILFERING ON TRANSPORTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 5

PILFERING ON TRANSPORTS.

OFFICER'S SERIOUS ALLT3GATIONS.

"MjELBOURNE, April 20. , Serious allegations of extensive pilfering on military transports .... were made to-day by a transport- .officer who recently returned irom abroad. He mentionsd that* m one .partieqlar vessel it had been discovered ili^t the -troops were boing' systismaticaljyvobbed of a portion of their daily ration, 7 The prac7 tiee wits to bake loaves of bread «• few ounces'- or so light, and m t|ii_ way those pei*i>etrating the fraud 'tVere able during | a voyage to store up tons of floui | -which' ordinai'ijy- would have been consumed by the troqpß. When the vessel again took m. stores at the era} of the voyage -the stock of flour I w;oiild- be, to the' Government as though itVfrajd been newly purchased, and those JT^^iicfttecl m , the .fraud would cut up ;,the' -pro^i,^' apiorigst theni. T.lie'\bfficehVsm<Lki*lg> . thesfe disclosures .asserted i that ,-pne chief steward, who j had since W t v the' .Sei'Vice, had- been j heard fa tkf tiShftCe hndZMvUc JBliß-O jin-15 months . by .such, .smart,, practice. v