THEFT AT A SCHOOL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3454, 7 April 1920, Page 7

THEFT AT A SCHOOL.

COI.I.I'JCTION OF COINS .STOI.EN‘

TE KUITI, April 4.

At the Te Kuiti ‘s'e.hool on Tuesday Mr Bathgate, a member of the teaching stafii, interested Lhis scholars by! showing them a collection of coins cal'ei’ully gathered in ‘various countries in which he saw active service. Mr Bathgafe was one of the small party selected to accompany the expedition to Baku, so that he had an opportunity of gathering coins used in Persia, Mesopotamia, and elsewhere. After the lesson the coins were placed in at small leather purse, and put’ away in al dx'u\\'el' in the master’s table. Next morning, when Mflr Bathg‘at.o opened“ the drawer he noticed at once that the‘ :1 liusty examination showed that the foreign coins had been‘ tampered with, foreign coins hadbeen stolen.‘ Fortunately some paper mone_V was over-I looked.