SHIP'S BLANKETS MISSING.
ALLEGATION OF THEFT.
CHABGE AGAINST STEWARD. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PHESS ASSOCIATION.] WANG AN UI. Friday. Rumours have been current in the town for the last two or three days regarding the disappearance of a large quantity of blankets from the overseas liner Armagh while that vessel lay at the anchorage in the Wanganui roadstead. During the last few days the police have been searching for the missing blankets, and as a result of their active ties between 40 and 50 have been recovered.
The disappearance of the blankets was not discovered on the ship until it was due to sail for Wellington, so the local police communicated with headquarters at Wellington, where the investigations were continued, and as a result a steward was arrested on Wednesday night on a charge of the theft of blankets from the Armagh valued at £20. He appeared at the Magistrate Court at Wellington yesterday, when he was remanded to appear at WanganiM to-morrow. The Armagh had been used as a troopship, and the blankets which are alleged to have been stolen were the property of the Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17234, 9 August 1919, Page 8
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