STORE BURGLED
GOODS REMOVED IN CAR
ATTACK ON TAXUDRIVER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHBISTCHURCH, This Day
A determined and successful attempt to enter .tho Eangiora branch store of the Now Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association was made on Saturday evening. The thieves first broke into the manager's office and ransacked the desks. Then they climbed on to the roof and with the aid of tools prised open a skylight in the second storey and descended into tho main hardware department, where they stole two rifles, ammunition, hunting knives, razors, tobacco, axes, and groceries. The thieves left by doors leading into the back yard, where tho goods wero loaded into a car.
It was reported to the police that a car had been stolen from Palmer and Doak's garage, and lator tho vehicle was found abandoned at Southbrook. Apparently it had been used to remove the goods. The same gang is believed to have been concerned in an attack on a taxidriver near Kaiapoi last night.
Detectives are investigating.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 11
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