DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 September 1945, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

SAFE STOLEN PALMERSTON N„ Sept. 15. Thieves entered the house of James McMillan, builder, Jucknell Street, on Thursday evening, and removed a safe containing £3 and documents. Entrance was gained by an open fanlight. Yesterday, the safe was recovered from a paddock adjacent to the main highway to Wellington, a few miles from Palmerston. The lock had been blown with explosives. Only some money and articles were taken.

MUSEUM BUILDING WELLINGTON, September 14. The Air Secretary (Mr T .A. Barrow) has announced that the Dominion Museum and National Art Gallery, which has been closed to the public since January, 1942, when the greater part of the building was taken over by the Royal New Zealand Air Force, will be vacated as soon as possible. It was hoped, he said, that it would be fully restored and functioning as formerly by June. Commenting on the announceement, the Director of the Museum (Dr. W. R. Oliver) said that if the Air Force was clear of the building by Novembei’ it would take six to eight months to rep ah' the building and remove the collections to the lower floor. The building had to be restored to the condition in which it was taken over. At present it was “somewhat knocked about.” ROBBERIES IN CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. The Trades Hall was broken into yesterday morning. The thieves entered the office of the Freezing Workers and Related Trades’ Union and scattered the contents of a desk. An attempt had been made to force the safe. About £l5 was stolen, the money being the personal property of the secretary (Mi’ H- G. Kilpatrick). The glass in the door was broken in the offices of the Retail Shop Assistants’ Union, the Storemen and Packers’ and Grocers’ Sundries Union, and the Canterbury Drivers’ Union. A small sum of money was stolen from the office of 'the Storemen and Packers and Grocers’ Sundries Union, but in the other two offices nothing was taken, though the drawers were ransacked. The door to the Grocers’ Assistants’ Union office was forced, but nothing, was stolen. A cake shop at 202 a Papanui Road, owned by Misses L. M. and I. Newton, was broken into on Thursday night, the thieves gaining entry through a skylight. About £l5 was stolen.