RIFLED LETTER BOXES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 6

RIFLED LETTER BOXES.

PROMPT ACTION TAKEN.

Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 7

Prompt action by a Fendalton tenant, her landlord, bank and Post Office authorities and detectives led to the arrest of four men in connection with the rifling of nine Post Office letter boxes in various parts of the suburbs of the city and outlying districts during the week-end. The areas mainly affected were Fendalton and New Brighton . A woman living in Fendalton posted a cheque for the rent to her landlord on Saturday. This morning she noticed that the letter box at the corner of Holmwood Road and Rossall Street had been tampered with. She immediately telephoned her landlord and asked whether lie had received the cheque. When ho said that he had not and learned that she had posted it he teleponed the Bank of New Zealand, on which the cheque was drawn, explain-, ing the circumstances. The bank officials, with a Post Office inquiry officer, waited for the cheque to be presented and it was not long before a youth brought it in. Inquiries led to his arrest and after other inquiries had been made elsewhere three other men were arrested. Letters were found in creeks and streams in the districts where the letter boxes had been rifled.