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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1932, Page 6

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The retirement cf C’otonol R. W. Tate C.M.G., C.8.E., stipendiary magistral,?, for Taranaki is announced. Ho will he mice coded i>v Mr W. H. Woodward. S.M., of Wellington. Mr Trie reached the age for retirement last July, but his term was extended. Upon vacating r-ffie? he will leave New Plymouth to- live in the Wairarapn, where: lie has property. Mr Tate was formerly Administrator of Samoa, where he went in *1919 l‘o succeed Color el Logan, who had been in charge there s'nee the occupation by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force soon after the outbreak of war with Germany.

The insist ent tooting of - a burglar alarm, two constables in the bustling myrch and an interested knot <:f nearby residents eautsed a stir in Peterborough Street, Christchurch, on Wednesday evening. The stage was set for another theft at the (premises of the Enterprise Boot Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 193, Peterborough Street, where the alarm was certainly operating efficiently. The anti-climax wacj provided, however, with the a : ' _ rival of tin.* manager, who discovered that the wind had blown open a door, thus setting off the alarm. A number of residents were in ignorance of the excitement, and harboured angry thoughts against what was evidently an impatient motorist sounding life horn. A piquant touch was added to tho situation when it was remembered that the premises had in the pact been visited by burglars, one enterprising visitor decamping with sjx shoes—all the left foot.