NEW CLUES FOUND.
NATIONAL PARK THEFTS
INQUIRIES BY DETECTIVES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) TAUMARUNUI, Friday. Further inquiries relating to burglaries which have occurred in the •National Park area indicate that inmates of the Rangipo and Whakapapahui prison camps, and not those at Hautu, are implicated. Detectives White, of Hamilton, and Murray, of Waiiganui, and .Constables Christmas, of Tokaanu, and Breed, of Raurimu, found that the doors of' the Rangipo and Whakapapanui camps had been tampered with and could be removed after they had been barred for the night. Articles taken from Mr. W. J. KTaylor's fishing lodge at Turangi were found at the Rangipo prison camp. A jemmy with which the prison doors had been prised off was also found. It belongs to the prison authorities. Equipment • stolen from Mr. T. McKee's store at Owhango, including a cash' register, was found near the Whakapapa-iti Stream, where a prison quarry is locfitcd. Tlic ni\66tigatiotis of the police are completed. Further action rests with the authorities m Wellington.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 306, 26 December 1936, Page 6
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