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SAMSON ROOFS ARE PERMANENT. \ Nothlnt to touch the " Everlutln* Gr«n - ■ or the " Invincible Bed" of the famout BAMBON ROOF PAINTS. BrtWant Sit PHILLIPPS & IMPEY, LTD., CJUKKN STREET. B ■ i SPRINGTIME . i HOME DECORATIONS. \ Mow M Uμ time lor Maonlnf—and \ now la the tine tot enoounc Well- , paper* from Uμ m**QUlcent new k fine* at charming •unnuoM and 1 toiplilM Mum now offering »« . PHILLIPPS & IMPEY, LTD., , QUEEN STREET. j ° C FOUR ARRESTS MADE. ] « i RIFLING OF LETTER BOXES. c y MISSING CHEQUE AS CLUE. * CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. r Prompt action by a Fendalton tenant, •r landlord, a bank and post office ' iithoritiee and a detective led to the * .rrest of four men in connection with c :he rifling of nine post office letter- s noxes in various suburbs of the city and outlying districts during the weekend. The areas mainly affected were 5 Fendalton and New Brighton. t A woman living in Fendalton posted a cheque for rent to her landlord on s Saturday. Thi§ morning ehe noticed s that a letter-box at the corner of Holm- s wood Road and Roesall Street had been tampered with. She immediately tele- [ phoned her landlord and asked whether * he had received the cheque. When he i eaid he had not and learned that she t had poeted it, he telephoned to the bank on which the cheque was drawn, a explaining the circumstances. c Bank officials, with a post office s inquiry officer, waited for the cheque to be presented. It was not long before a youth was arrested, and after other * Iv 1 * 1 * 1 *! hiwl t)eeu made elsewhere \ ? **a men also wcre arr ested. f •fc**.!™* W .?. re found in creek s a»d dl *£ ict s where letter-boxes e

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 239, 8 October 1940, Page 6

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Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 239, 8 October 1940, Page 6

Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 239, 8 October 1940, Page 6

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