Awakened at 2.45 o'clock yesterday morning by the switching on of the light in their bedroom, Mr. Thomas- Stewart, lieensee _ of the Rapahoe Hotel, and. his wife were confronted by a masked man, armed' with a rifle. The intruder ordered the couple into a corner of the room, but there- was a door in the corner and Mr. Stewart slipped through it into the dining-room. In the meantime 'Mrs. Stewart ealled out, awakening the lodgers. Wilth the raising of an alarm the intruder made- good his eseape before a police par'oy from Greymouth ana Runanga, summoned by telephone, had arrived. The seareh is proc.eeding. Rapahoe is seven miles from Greymouth on the highway to Westport.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1947, Page 5
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115Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1947, Page 5
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