THEFT FROM CARGO.
“DEPLORABLE STATE OF , AFFAIRS.” .A FIREMAN SENTENCED. • . •’ (By Telegraph. Press Association.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. At the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court a fireman on the steamer Leitram, charged with stealing a carcase of lamb, the property of the Federal Steam Navigation Company, pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Jackson said that there was a deplorable state of affairs on the waterfront. Accused stole the carcase, and was caught by the chief officer going below with it. No one seemed to know where the fireman obtained the lamb, and nobody appeared to care. At a sitting of the court on the previous day they had had the manager of a large company as witness in a case of alleged theft of coal, and he had said that the chief engineer of a vessel would have the right to give away other people’s property. The sergeant said he came to the conclusion that the management of Lyttelton’s waterfront was like “Paddy’s gun: it needed new stock, lock, and barrel.” In giving judgment the magistrate said, that when the evidence as mentioned above was given in open court ■it was little wonder that the “ small fry” on a ship committed theft.
Accused was sentenced to ■ three months’ hard labour.
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Waipa Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 1010, 23 October 1920, Page 5
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204THEFT FROM CARGO. Waipa Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 1010, 23 October 1920, Page 5
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