ROBBED ON BOAT.
IMMIGRANT LOSES £IOO. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ASHBURTON, Aug. 12. A. Scottish immigrant, ex R.uahine, named Mrs. Duggie, while en route for Dunedin, discovered on the train that she had. been robbed of £IOO on the ferry steamer Maori from Wellington last night. The woman asked her husband- on the boat to wear a cloth bag in which the money was kept round his neck, and he suggested that she put the money under her pillow. His wife agreed, and during the night the money, which represented the value of a draft cashed the previous day, was stolen. The husband and wife and four children were left- practically penniless. Fellow immigrants and sympathetic passengers on the. train had collected £2O before reaching Ashburton, where further aid was given.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 August 1924, Page 9
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