WHISKY STOLEN FROM SHIP
TWO OF KUMARA CREW GUILTY. CASE THROWN INTO HARBOUR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, July 25. Two members of the crew of the Kumara, William Spratt and John Burgess, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to receiving ten bottles of whisky, the property of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. A Customs officer saw a car drive on to the Bluff wharf into which the accused placed a suitcase. Approached by the Customs officer, Spratt removed the cast from the car, a bottle of whisky falling and smashing. Then he threw the case into the harbour, from which it was recovered by the police. It was found to contain ten bottles of whisky stolen from the ship. It had apparently been broached at Dunedin.
Spratt and Burgess were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and ordered to be placed on the Kumara when she sails from the Dominion.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1934, Page 7
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