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THREE MEN CHARGED P.A. HASTINGS, July 24. The safe was removed from the office in the butchery of J. B. Fletcher on Sunday evening and after being opened and rifled was thrown into the Ngaruroro River, near the Pakowhai bridge. The police have recovered some of the missing money but the safe is still in the river. It is stated that one of Mr. Fletcher's delivery vans was used to take the safe from the shop. Apparently it was taken to a vacant section and the back broken open with a chisel and hammer, and then taken to the river and dumped. Mr. Fletcher is unable to state the exact amount that was in the safe, but there was a £50 war bond, and books and papers. At a sitting of the Hastings Court yesterday Fraser Morrell Thomas, butcher's assistant, 17, Kenneth Raymond Cudby, machinist, 19, and Kenneth John Forster, farmhand, 18, appeared before J.P's and jointly charged with breaking into the shop and committing theft. They were remanded for a week;
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 9
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175SAFE CARTED OFF Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 9
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