XMAS STOCK STOLEN

Evening Star, Issue 19127, 19 December 1925, Page 2

XMAS STOCK STOLEN

TDSACGOKIST’S PREDICAMENT [Special to run ‘Star.’] CMBISTCHUBCH. December 18. Tobacco, cigarettes, pipes, hair clippers, razors.. and other goods (o tho .value of over L'7U were stolen Irom a tobacconist’s shop in Cashel street some time during last night, 'the haul wap, I taken from the shop of E. Prothero, I opposite the premises of the Now Zca- ■ land Farmers’ Co-operative Association jof Canferhurv, Lid., in Cashel street. I He had jW recently opened the shop, and bad worked up a .most promising business. Most, nt his Christmas stock, which he has just opened, wap filched by the. thieves, and, in addition to this, ins hairentters and razors wore all taken, and to carry on business m usual this morning lie had to go out and purchase sets of now ones. The thieves had used a jemmy to break away the lock on the street tloor, which is the only entrance, to the shop. The inside woodwork of the door, which holds the lock, was broken aw;ly so Dial, the door swung open with ;Jst a push. Evidently the thieves had worked in comparative comfort. As (hero is a kind of alcove between the dividing wall of the shop and the shop window, they would be well screened from tho street while they were forcing tho door open, for the entrance is a few feet in from the ordinary front shop level on the footpath.