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Bruce Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 89, 8 December 1913, Page 1

OLD MASTG/IS FOR AMERICA, The celebrated private ait collection, valued at £400,000, of the late Herr Do Ridder, a millionaire of Frankiort-on-thcrJVlain, has beon bought for an unknown American. _ The collection includes tho famous "Portrait of Two Women." b- Franz Hals, three Rembrandts, two Reubenses,»three Holbeins, five Jan Steens, a v, d two Vandycks. "You tell all your boy friends that the next one who is brought before mo for stone-throwing will not got off with only a warning. Ho will be taken to the police station and the most powerful constable to be found there will bo requisitioned to give the culprit a thorough good hiding." These words were addressed by Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M.. at the Auckland S.M. Court to a very diminutive lad who was brought before him the other day for stone-throw-ing,