GIRL’S FLAT RAIDED
FURNITURE AND CLOTHING STOLEN LOSS ESTIMATED AT £IOO. (Peb UrrrED Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 11. An extraordinary case of a flat off Upper Symonds street being entered and all furniture, clothing, and other possessions of the occupant being removed was reported to the police last evening. The only articles left in the flat were lamp shades and curtains. The premises are occupied by Miss Fay Cooper, assistant in a city sweets stall. She left her flat at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, locking the door on her departure. When she returned from work shortly before midnight she found that the flat had been entered and all the contents removed. The furniture comprised a polished oak bedroom suite, floor rugs, and pictures, while a number of articles of clothing, including a fox fur valued at about £lO, were also missing. Nearly all the articles were almost new. The total value of the goods is estimated by Miss Cooper at about £IOO. ' , Three tenants of flats m the same building were all absent during the afternoon. None of them saw any articles being removed from the building.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21359, 12 June 1931, Page 7
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