Club’s flag stolen

Press, 19 July 1983, Page 9

Club’s flag stolen

A flag flying at half-mast was stolen from outside the Canterbury Officers’ Club in Gloucester Street last evening. The club’s president, Mr Russell Gregory, said that the thief had cut the flag from the mast, probably with a knife. For more than 100 years it had been the club’s practise to fly a flag when one of its members had died. It was the first time the flag had been stolen. “Nothing seems to be sacred any more,” said Mr Gregory. The . theft has been reported to the A large antique umbrella

stand worth between $l5OO and $2OOO was stolen from St George’s Hospital on Sunday morning. The thieves drove up to the hospital’s east hallway, put the umbrella stand in a trailer, and drove off with it. The chairman of the board of directors, Mr I. L. Ford, said that the piece is 1.4 m high and consists of a seat and mirror with an umbrella stand on each end. Mr Ford said he was concerned that a theft could occur like that in broad daylight. The car used in the theft was a light coloured Ford Falcon and the trailer was grey with high wire sides.