THIEVES ACTIVE

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1930, Page 5

THIEVES ACTIVE

AUCKLAND PEEAHSES RAIDED

AUCKLAND, August 4

Thieves were active in the city during the week-end, two warehouses and an office being broken into. A little damage was done at each place but nothing was stolen. Late 'last night the constable who patrols Anzac Avenue discovered, the. large doors at the main entrance to Tyler’s furniture warehouse open. These doors, which are lift high and were secured with a heavy thick brass clasp and a large padlock, were opened after the fittings had been forced apart with a jemmy or other iron instrument. This morning the Manager ,Alr Tyler, said he had made a thorough examination of the large stock which was carried on each of the four floors of the warehouse but he could not find any-1 tiling missing. “1 think the thieves were after cash” he .said, “because they had a good look around the office. A door leading from my own office, which has been kept locked for months; was found open. Evidently they unlocked this door and left it open' in case they were disturbed and wanted to make a quick getaway.” There was some money in the safe but no attempt was made to open it The thieves were very daring to force the big front doors which are on a busy street and well lighted; and they j must have made a noise. It is thought. that the operators were disturbed while at work.

Only a short distance away from Tyler’s but in Beach Road, the warehouse of the New Zealand Express (Company(was forced open on Saturday night. The big padlock clasp, which fitted into the staple on the door of the firm’s garage, was forced off from the garage. The thieves climbed over a partition and got into the charging room, where valuable goods and accessories were stored, Nothing was Missing, 1 i . --/.

Gaining an entrance through the fanlight somebody paid a visit to the Auckland Fisherman’s Co-operation, Limited. Although the place was thoroughly ransacked, the burglar got nothing for his plans because the company had taken the precaution of banking any money they had taken on Saturday. The bottom was cut out of the cash register and the drawers were thoroughly searched. No attempt however, was made on the safe. “It seemed to be an amateurish sort of attempt.” said the manager this morning. “Whoever it was took the trouble of cutting out the bottom of the cash register when all he had to do to open it was to press one of the keys.”