COTTAGES RIFLED
RAID ON STOKES VALLEY
WELLINGTON, November 21
Articles of every description of a total value of about £IOO were stolen from four week-end cottages at Stokes Valley during last week, and tbe owners received a rude shock on voting their premises over U'.e weekend. 7. hev found that in each *ns*a ice the looms hsd been practically si.lipped.
One of the 1 heaviest losers was Mr J. Combe. He discovered oh Saturday that nearly the whole of the furniture from his cottage' had bben ' removed by the thieves. " 1 Odd'pets' mirrors, cutlery, crocked y/ J fi!lvervfere, v 1 ornaments, bed linen and valuable‘‘Bad all been taken. A bed was removed from Mr. Ritchie’s cottage, which _ had been stiripped of practically everything portable, the owner estimating his loss 'at about £4O.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1932, Page 2
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