Wrist Watches Pillaged
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■ CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 3. A case which coutained £]60 wo;th yf wrist lyatches when it Jei't Switzerlaml was found to ])e empty when it was deliverod to . Fred Sladcn and Sons, Ltd., a Christchurch firmi of manufacturers reprcsentati ves, this week. The principal of tfie lirm said the case was one of hve his lirm was expecting. IJe did not know what had happened . to the other four cases. The pillaged case arrived by the Pakeha at Wellington from London on August 24. The goods were insured, but it was not the insurance his him was wanting. The watches were ordered for returned servicemen with importers7 licences secured through the Rehabilitation Department, Pillaging was getting worse according to experience of his lirm. Previouslv this year some of the packages consigned to it had been broken into , and a few articles removed. but this was the first time a case had been empty when it was collected from the Post Otiice. ' ' We have told the manufacturers not to write the conteiits on cases," he said. "We have cabled our -Iwiss principals instructing tliem to ?end pai'cels by air freight. He added, aowever, that some parcels received by lir from overseas had also been pillaged. 4
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 September 1948, Page 4
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209Wrist Watches Pillaged Chronicle (Levin), 4 September 1948, Page 4
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