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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 152, 29 June 1917, Page 6

'A'drawing-room piano docs not suggest itself as the sort of domestic triiic tha.t-n.itghfc.be picked up and pocketed by a passing thief, but a firm of auctioneers in. Auckland has reason to' know thab at lease one person in the city lias discovered a method of spiriting away pianos. During the course of an auction sale of furniture at-a Ito use in. vSymonds Street laso month, an upright piano was sold to a Northcotc resident for £23,. and that' piano disappeared. The lady, in , complaining to the police, stated that the had been, assisted to have a look over the piano by an affable man who sported an apron, and who later made inquiries about whether she required a carter to remove the instrument to her* home. She alleged that she engaged this man to cart tl'e piano to her place, but it had not arrived there. Detective Powell later located the missing piano aba home in the city. j The explanation given was that the affable man with the -: apron . had informed" the man to whose place the" piano .was takeh'.that he had art. opportunity of getting '••,i \>h\ no dirt cheap, and had persuaded hitp to buy +he instrument, which ho brought along in a cart, foi about £5. By the time the police hod located the piano the man who had bcon alleged to have sold it on behalf of himself for £5 had disappeared. On Monday night an orre'st was made. Best plantation rubber combined with best British brains go to make the North British Company's Hot Water Bottle the best for long ser-vice—-bub' look for the patent "Unique" stopper. It spells satisfaction.—Advfc.