An Auckland message says:—Apparently scientific cargo-pillage is developed to a high degree in Germany. A large case of high-class German violins landed at Auckland this week, was found to have been cunningly broached. The case bore no outward signs of having been tampered with when delivery was taken by Lewis JL Endy and Son, Ltd., hut when it was opened it was found that six of the best instruments had been removed, and their place had been taken by a number of bricks, wrapped in carpet. This filling was carefully adjusted, so that the weight of the case and its contents remained unaltered. Experts who examined the case are of opinion that the pillaging took place before the consignment left the Uontinenl. The bricks are of the type and texture peculiar to Central Europe, and substitution must have been made with considerable ease, and in no haphazard fashion, as the thief was enabled to select the violins with an exactitude which indicated that, he was a connoisseur of musical instruments.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1924, Page 1
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