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BURGLARIES IN CITY

OFFICES RANSACKED THIEVES £3O HAUL DOORS AND DESKS FORCED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Burglars were active in Wellington early this week. They broke into Kent House, in Kent terrace, and ransacked most of the offices in the building, making off with some £3O in cash. On the same evening they were disturbed while attempting to gain access to another building. Two other attempts, also fruitless, were made to enter buildings in the city on the following night. The police are investigating their activities.

In Kent House on the morning after the burglary practically every door bore the marks of having been forced with jemmies. Desks and drawers had been similarly treated. Drawers had been pulled out and their contents in many cases strewed about the offices.

The burglars appeared to have started in the second storey and to have worked downward, being disturbed before they completed their operations on the first floor.

They were not interested in goods, but were in search of ready money. On the top floor they made their main haul in the offices of Amos Softgoods Limited, where they obtained .about £3O in cash, some of it being money of girl employees being kept for them by the firm.

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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20486, 21 February 1941, Page 9

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BURGLARIES IN CITY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20486, 21 February 1941, Page 9

BURGLARIES IN CITY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20486, 21 February 1941, Page 9

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