Property Worth $83,498 stolen Last Month

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31984, 10 May 1969, Page 14

Property Worth $83,498 stolen Last Month

Property worth 383,418 was stolen in Christchurch last month. Detective Sergeant E. J. Stackhouse, the erime prevention officer, said yesterday. The figure included the value of tite keteh Banlka, stolen from Lyttelton, and a largo amount involved in thefts by servants. The incidence of fraud had increased, mainly after thefts of cheque books from parked 'Active Sergeant Stockhouse said that in many of the attempted burglaries re-

ported the criminals had been hwarted by security devices Burglaries numbered 181, property worth 812,868 being stolen. Business premises broken Into totalled 118 and dwellings 63. Attempted burglaries of 36 business premises and 16 houses were reported. Two hundred and fortyeight thefts were reported, the value of articles taken tile thefts were from motorvehicles. Among the property worth 83833 that had been stolen were 12 wheels. Fifty vehicles, worth $57,123, were unlawfully taken. Forty-two were care or trucks, six motor-cycles and two traitors.. Six instances of interference with vehicles were reported. The police received 21 reports of wilful damage amounting to $902.