Bag With £2000 Snatched By Man

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30275, 30 October 1963, Page 9

Bag With £2000 Snatched By Man

(New Zealand Press Association AUCKLAND, October 29.

A bag containing about £2OOO was snatched front a woman in Symonds street, Auckland, about 11 a.m. today. The police are searching for a man who ran off with the bag down nearby Hohipere street. The woman was taking the money from the Astor Hotel, in Symonds street, to a nearby bank.

This was the second major theft in the city. It w’as found earlier today that burglars took more than £6OOO from a supermarket at Papakura at the week-end. The woman had the bag snatched from her as she

walked past a home-furnish-ing shop. A shop assistant, Mr W. Miller, said he heard a scream and rushed outside, where the woman was standing. “He's taken my money,” she told him.

Mr Miller said he did not .see the man himself, but the ! woman said he had gone I down Hohipere street. I “I called the police im--1 mediately." he said. Week-end burglars got away with more than £6OOO !in cash and cheques when they blew a safe in the main I office of the Foodtown Supermarket, near Papakura.

The food market is on the Great South road, about a I mile north of Papakura town- | ship. Entry to the 22,000 sq. ft. ! building was gained through ; the roof. The burglars are bej lieved to have climbed on the 'roof by using empty wooden | crates.

j They cut their way through

the iron and lowered themselves inside the roof. They made another cut to gain entry to the office, where they blew the small steel safe.

The burglary was discovered about 8.10 a.m. today by members of the supermarket office staff. The bulk of the money represented takings between 4 p.m. and closing time on Friday night. All the money is insured.