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? PEARLS WORTH £3000 J THROWN AWAY | ' IN BOX. | ... r ii ! 5 f Sixty men employed on the West- | minster City Council's great refuse ! dump on the bank of the Thames, = near Rainhame, Essex, were recently I searching in the mass. of rubbish for \ a small cardboard box containing a s pearl riecklace valued at £3000. A re- f . ward of £300 awaits the person who | find's it. | The necklace is the property of Mrs. | Harman. On August 24, when stay- 1 ing at ihe Ladies'. Army and Navy I Club, in St. James' Place, she sent | to her jewellers for a pair of eaiv | rings which were being remounted. | The jewellers had also in their pos- 1 session her pearl necklace, which they | returned with the ear-rings. | Mrs. Harman was not expecting the | necklace, took out -the ear-rings arid | threw the packet away. Several days I later she called at the jewellers for ; I the necklace, and the loss was dis- f covered. ... , . , = It is thought that. the box, along 1 witli the necklace, was coll'ectect with 1 the cluh's rubbish, and: taken to the 1 refuse dump. The dump is nearly a 1 mile square and 10 feet high. Little I , hope was entertained of finding the 9 necklace'. ;
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 2
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