THEFTS OF MONEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 2

THEFTS OF MONEY.

REPORTS IN AVELLINGTON. Per Press Association. AA’ELLINGTON, Dec. 22. It is understood that a number of reports of alleged activities of pickpockets were received at the detective office in AA’ellington, to-day. A storeman working for Johnston and Co., Ltd., Wellington, said in an interview to-day that he had lost between £l3O and £l5O, mostly' in £5 notes. The money represented personal savings over 12 months. Ha said ho had been carrying the notes in a wallet in his hip pocket for soma days, and had intended using it in carrying out some improvements at his home. He thought he had tho money with him when he went liomo for lunch at 12.15 p.m. He. travelled by tram. AA’hen he returned to his work at 1 o’clock he found the money was missing from his pocket. A second man who was interviewed to-day stated that £3O in notes had been stolen from his pocket. A Government employee, he said lie ’ travelled on a crowded tram. He had the money with him in his pocket,’but when he alighted from the tram' he discovered it was gone. >