SAFE ROBBED
ABOUT £BOO TAKEN. PORTION OF MEN’S PAY SENSATION AT TAURANGA. - (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TAURANGA. Jan. 22. ' Early yesterday morning a sum -of about £BOO was stolen from the safe in the office of Sir W. G. Armstrong, W hitworth *and Co., here. So tar as can be learned an employee early in the morning took some £2OOO from the safe to pay men on a portion of the works, leaving two cash boxes still in the safe to be taken . later by men elsewhere. * When another employee went for the money at about 9 o-elock be found the safe unlocked and the money missing. The two empty cash boxes were found later in the ladies’ lavatory, but there was no trace-of the money. No arrests have vet been made. m
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 5
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133SAFE ROBBED Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 5
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