BURGLARS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 August 1924, Page 5

BURGLARS.

ACTIVITIES IN AUCKLAND. A DARING ROBBERY. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 19. Burglars continue active in the city and suburbs. Last night the office of the Tamaki Sawmill Company, Newmarket, was entered and an attempt made to blow open the safe. The locks held, however, and the task was abandoned. The office was ransacked, hut nothing of value ivas taken. A butcher’s shop in the vicinity was also entered, but no money was on the premises. During the week-end a draper’s shop in King.sland was entered and boys suits and caps were stolen.

On Saturday afternoon, during the occupants’ absence, a house at Epsom was ransacked, clothing and jewellery being taken.

The most daring robbery was perpetrated in Shortland Street shortly after 2.30 p.m. to-day, when a man snatched a bank slip book containing £SO from a young woman who was taking the money to the bank. There were £2O in notes and £3O in cheques in the book, which a woman typiste employed in the city carried, apparently, under her arm. When she felt a tug under the arm she turned and saw a young man running away. Though a passer-by gave chase the thief escaped.