Conductor’s dilemma: music stolen
Mr W. R. Hawkey, conductor of the Christchurch Harmonic Society, is in a quandary; the society will take part in a recital at Rangiora on Saturday week, but all his music was stolen yesterday after, noon.
Mr Hawkey, who Is a senfor lecturer in music at the University of Canterbury, left the music in an attache case in his station waggon parked in the grounds of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Barbadoes Street.
The doors of his vehicle were locked, but the thief managed to open the window at the rear of the station waggon and remove the attache case containing music and some university textbooks, said Mr Hawkey.
“I would appeal to the person who took the case not to dump It but to leave It somewhere-to be picked up,” he said. Mr Hawkey was to have a practice last evening, but the loss of the material prevented this. ...
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32659, 15 July 1971, Page 1
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