POLITICIANS ROBBED
“NOTHING BUT GOOD NAME.” THIEVES ON FERRY STEAMER. . PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, June 29. To arrive in Wellington only with the clothes they stood up in after being robbed of everything else on the boat, barring their good name, was the fato of two southern politicians who went from Lyttelton to Wellington on the Maori on Tuesday night. The following telegram has been received from one of the victims: “Gone through on the Maori for all my “ready cash—a few pounds—my fountain pou,
watch and chain, pocket hook, glasses and cheque book, and arrived in Wellington with nothing hut my good name. ’ was treated the same.”
A man charged with tho offence is to eoine before tho Wellington police court this momimz
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11250, 30 June 1922, Page 5
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