Ambulance, police have quiet day
More than $6OO in cash was stolen after burglars cut open a safe at the Brown Derbx Dairy, at 233 Colombo Street, early yesterday. The burglary was one of the worst incidents in what Christchurch emergence services described yesterday as a quiet Christmas On Christmas Dax the
police attended onlv the: usual number of domestic in-: cidents, car thefts, and burglaries — including the ransacking of an office at Don McNeill Motors. Ltd. in Stanmore Road. One man was arrested during the morning and charged with indecent assault. St John ambulancemen
yesterday took two women suffering from drug overdoses to Christchurch Hospital. “We usually' get a few overdoses on Christmas Day. People get lonely’ and depressed about having no-one to spend Christmas with,” a spokesman said. There were none of the! other usual Christmas ailments — such as chicken bones stuck in throats — but ambulancemen were kept busy ferrying sick and elderly persons home from hospitals and homes for Christmas dinner, and taking them back. A building owned by Lane Walker Rudkin, Ltd. at the intersection of Burke Street and Orbell Street. Addington, was damaged by fire just before 4 a.m. yesterday. Eight appliances from the Spreydon, Sockburn, Wooiston. and Central stations attended the blaze, the. cause of which was not known. Fire caused moderate damage tq a house at 2 Maidstone Road about 1.40 p.m. yesterday. The occupants of the house were out when the fire started. Firemen also attended several rubbish fires.
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