WAR BRIDE ROBBED
HANDBAG STOLEN IN AUCKLAND (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. Four hours after the Monterey ar-’ rived from Sydney this morning, a passenger was robbed of her handbag containing money and traveller’s cheques to the value of about 500 dollars while she was shopping in a Queen street department store. She was Mrs. O. M. Whitney, an Australian war bride, who was on her way to the United States with her young son. The shop was crowded. Among the contents of her purse were £75 worth of American dollar bills, £75 in traveller’s cheques, and £25 in Australian currency. There was also a boat ticket from Sydney to San Francisco for herself and her son. , The purse and contents had not been recovered by 5 p.m. when Mrs. Whitney resumed her voyage on the Monterey. Representatives of the shipping' company said the ticket which she had in her purse was only, a carbon copy of the original taken from her when she boarded, the vessel. It was for use as an' identity check during the voyage and its loss would not cause her any serious inconvenience.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19461102.2.5
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1946, Page 2
Word Count
187WAR BRIDE ROBBED Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1946, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in