ROBBERY ON FERRY BOAT.
I £IOO TAKEN FROM IMMIGRANT, SYMPATHETIC FELLOW- ■ PASSENGERS. (Pea United Press Ashociation.) ASHBURTON, August 12. A Scottish immigrant, Mrs Duggie, who arrived by the Ruahine, while en route to Dunedin, discovered on the train that she had been robbed of £IOO on the ferry steamer Maori from Wellington last night. The woman asked her husband on the boat to wear round his neck a cloth bag in which the money was kept. He suggested that Ae should put the money under her pillow, and the wife agreed to do so. During the night the money, which represented the value of a draft cashed the previous day, was stolen. The husband, wife, and four children were left practically penniless. Fellow-immigrants and sympathetic ponsengers on the train had collected £2O befove reaching Ashburton, where further aid was given. THE "ALL BLACKS." When leaving far Sydney, the N.Z. team took good supplies of Q-tol (for embrocation) and Flucnzol as a means of wrding off sore throats and influenza.—Advt.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19249, 13 August 1924, Page 7
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