SERIES OF THEFTS IN INVERCARGILL

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 3, 29 September 1942, Page 5

SERIES OF THEFTS IN INVERCARGILL

Cigarettes And Petrol (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, September 28. A series of thefts occurred in Invercargill during the weekend when more than £lOO worth of cigarettes and 9b gallons of petrol were stolen. First to be discovered was the theft of 58 gallons of petrol, from a pump in the Southland Carrying Company premises in Spey Street. When an employee of the company visit*! the premises yesterday morning he found that an Entrance had been made by the back door and other doors in the building had also been forced. The steel lock on the pump had heed presumably cut through .with a set of bolt cutters which are now missing. Apparently the thiel or thieves , used one of the company’s trucks to move the petrol and then put the truck back. f Fourteen gallons of petrol and -0 of power kerosene were also stolen from a shed adjoining the Queen’s; Park Golf Chib house. It is thought that the truck was also used here. The Single Profit depot In Leven Street "was broken into and over xiuo worth of cigarettes and tobacco was taken. Entrance was gained by ripping off boards at the rear of the building and then cutting the tin lining.