Shoplifting Losses.
An amount of £500,000 a year is lost by shoplifting in New Zealand, according to an estimate by the official organ of the Drapers, Clothiers and Boot Retailers’ Federation. It is stated that “rightly or wrongly the draper of the Dominion can no longer disguise the fact that losses due to this pernicious and increasing practice are assuming such proportions that protection of a highly scientific nature must be evoked. Shoplifting losses when capitalised at bank rates constitute prodigious figures . . . The need is for a permanent organisation in the Dominion which would and could give shopkeepers some alleviation from this menace. Of necessity the staff of such a concern would have to be highly and scientifically trained, and above all, have the supervision of an almost superman.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1935, Page 12
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