THEFT FROM MUSEUM
PRINCE OF WALES MEMENTO
(By Telegr..ph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, June 20. A card signed by the Prince of Wales when he was made an. honorary member of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association in 1920 was stolen recently tfrom the -war section of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
In reporting the theft to the council of the Auckland Institute and Museum, tho director, Mr. G-. Archey, said that it was evidently carried out by someone who entered the museum for the purpose. Tho card was enclosed in a frame screwed to wooden plugs inserted in the wall in a rather remote part of the -war trophy hall. In order to Temove it the thief unscrewed the frame. - •
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 6
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118THEFT FROM MUSEUM Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 6
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