CIGARETTES STOLEN FROM WHARF UNION’S OFFICES
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The office of the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union in shed No. 15 on the wharves was entered duririg the weekend and several cartons of cigarettes, bought by the union as part of the stocks of tobacco regularly distributed to hospital patients, were stolen. Entry was obtained from the wharves through the waterfront bureau on the ground floor. The bureau was also searched by the thieves without result. The door to the union office on the second floor was opened by breaking a glass panel. Gelignite was used to the safe and all the drawers and cabinets in the premises were ransacked. The intruders ignored some pipe tobacco, which was with the cigarettes in a steel cabinet.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 6
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