£300 STOLEN FROM FARM HOUSE
A theft of nearly £3OO in cash was reported to the police on Wednesday evening by Mr J. B. Lees, a poultry farmer, of 264 Hoon Hay road. About £275 in a jar, which was kept in a wardrobe in Mr Lees’s home, was taken on Sunday night by thieves who ransacked the house and even took the cash—except pennies—from the money-boxes of Mr Lees’s four children. Drawers, desks, and wardrobes had been searched, and the cash, which was taken from the wardrobe, was a sum which Mr Lees kept on hand to buy wheat for his poultry from local farmers. It was the takings from the sale of poultry and eggs.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27569, 28 January 1955, Page 7
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