MARAUDER WHO SHAVED

Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 8

MARAUDER WHO SHAVED

BOARDINGHOUSE RANSACKED

i.mmk;i:ant*s jikavy loss

l or (mol check, a marauder who entered a Imai iliuLihoiise in Mount Street during the week is not likely to find a rival. Apparently he chose a time when all 1 he boarders were at work, and was a.'de to take plenty ot time in his search tor loose cash. in the portmanteau of one visitor lie found shaving gear, and Used it blunting the la/or sadly and niekiig the strop. Another resident. Mr. H. IJoddington. iost a wallet contain:ng a number of papers, but no money. liis loss, hovvcv ii'v was a particularly annoying one, as he is a recent arrival from England, and the wallet contained all his reference-. credentials and letters of intro-

HIKURANGI MINE.

TELEGRAM FROM PREMIER,

KXOIXKKI; to JIEPOK'L"

(rtj- Tologrn[.li.—Own Correspondent.) WHANOAKEI. this dav

Tn response to represent at ion-, in connection with the position which lias arisen at the llikurangi coal mines, the Prime Minister. Sir Joseph Ward, telegraphed to Mr. A. -I. Murdoch. M.P.. this morning, that he has i — ued instructions that the drainage engineer make an immediate reoort with a view to chocking the flooding at the mine.