TWO SUITCASES
LOSS FROM HOTEL NOTES ON CONFERENCE MISSING p.A. WELLINGTON. Aug. 18. The disappearance of two suitcases from the office at the Grand Central Hotel. Wellington, is likely, among other things, to impede seriously the work of the committee appointed by the Education Department to revise the handwriting syllabus. The cases belonged to the committee's chairman, Mr Campbell Boyle, assistant senioi inspector of schools. The value of the contents is about £7O. Included were departmental papers, valuable books on education, and the owner’s notes as chairman ot the Revision Committee at sessions lasting nine days. There was also a copy of a valuable piece of research bv a New Zealander on left-handed-ness which Mr Boyle had borrowed The cases apparently disappeared about. 6 p.m. on Friday. The owner was returning to Auckland by tram that night.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26543, 19 August 1947, Page 4
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