DOMINION ITEMS
MYSTERIOUS THEFT
FROM CASH BOX
fPer Press \Association — Cwyrghl.)
AUCKAND, January 16
A mysterious , theft is reported from the office of Tan fie Id, Potter and Co., China merchants, Civic House, Queen Street. Shortly after nine o’clock on Saturday morning, during the temporary absence of a woman clerk from the office, which is situated on the third floor, a sum of money, believed to be about £lO in notes and postalnotes, was stolen from a cash-box on an office desk. Mr E. H. Potter, head of the "firm, was in his office adjoining the> main office at the time but he was not disturbed. The office is situated at the end of a small passage-way, dlose to thq lift-wdll. ’Other money was in the cash-box and underneath it,- and it is suggested .that tlie thief was disturbed and made off in a hurry. He took with him, ,jn addition to the notes, some papers ■ ' belonging to the firm hut •which would be of no. u6e.~to the thief-
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1933, Page 6
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169DOMINION ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1933, Page 6
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