ANOTHER BURGLARY

Grey River Argus, 15 January 1925, Page 5

ANOTHER BURGLARY

At Beck and Company’s Premises CASH REGISTER RIFLED. Another burglary was committed in Greymouth, on Tuesday night, or in the small hours of Wednesday morning, the premises of Messrs P. Beck and Co., general merchants, Mackay St, being entered. The cash register was rifled and £6 taken therefrom. The intruder made his entrance from the lane running at the rear of the Commercial Hotel. Entering a shed at the back of Beck and Co’s, premises, and unlocking a window at the end of this building nearest to the main premises, the thief effected an entrance into the loft of the shop, and by means of a step-ladder descended into the shop itself. It is the custom of the firm to leave the cash register unlocked, to militate against damage by burglars. Th-o sum of £6 for small change, had been left in the register that was rotbp 1, but, strange to say, the burglar left untouched another register, also rnnta'njrg money, and unlocked, *. Birn:t<lo Heme Box, which contained a considerable amount. Ti is reported another rash register was recently tampered with in town. An interesting fossil, a moa’s thigh bone, measuring 2ft 7sin in length is on view in a window in High Street, Hawera. The hone was found by Mr Tim O’Neill, of Manutahi, at the Forty-Mile Bush. Wairarapa. Some idea of the tremendous age of the fossil may bo gauged by the fact that it was found under tKe roots of a giant rimu tree measuring sft in diameter and growing in a swamp.