FOUR BURGLARIES

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 5

FOUR BURGLARIES

COUP IN COUNTRY TOWN \ £25 TAKEN FROM OPEN SALE (Per Press Association. .Auckland, June 18. Quite a big raid was made by burglars on a. number of shops in Spring street and Bowen street, Wa/iuku, last night. ' Four simps in Spring street, those of Mr.s Brinton (restaurant keeper), Mr Naism.ith. (fruitereir), Mr R. C. Wright (tobacconist and hairdresser) and Mr Plimmer (butcher), were broken into. In each ease the back rooms were forced open with a large jemmy.

Mr Nn.ismi.th was the heaviest loser Unfortunately for him., he forgot to lock his safe, which contained £25 an cash. Every penny of it was stolen.

. About C2 in money was token from Mrs Brin ton’s simp, while a large quantity of tobacco and cigarettes were stolen .from Mr Wright’s premises. He wa.s fortunate, for the thieves overlooked over 11 o in silver, which lie left overnight. Attempts were made to break into Mr Balia nee’s butchery in Bowen street and also Wright and Bonnors grocery in the 1 same street-, but the doors could not be forced. In evencase the shops broken into were of the “lock up” variety.