DRUGS VALUED AT £800 STOLEN
-Press Association
By Telegrap'n—
WELLINGTON, August 15. Drugs vulued at. £800 were stolen on Tuesday night from a Health Depart ment Htore in (Seaview Road, Lower Hutl. (Some of the drugs are danger ous ones, and they include a quantity of opium. The store is part of a Jarge group of buildings on the Seaview Reelamatkm^ I'ormerly used as military stores. A ear was see n 011 Tuesday evening to bdriven on» to the reclamation along a rough traek, a point sutiicient to attracx attention, as there are two good rohds which would serve the purpose of anyone apjiroaching the store. (Subsequently a c-ar containing four men drove ol'f along Seaview Road towards Petone shortly after 8 p.m. Thefts in Ihe (Seaview Road area have been frequent ever since the military gua'rd on the . stores was removed. (Senior De.tectlve W. Mc Lennau lun frequent ly comfiiented on that' fact when pTosecutiiig persons eh'argetf" in the Lower Ilutt Court witli thefts from the Seaview vehicle park.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 August 1946, Page 5
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