A DRUNKEN PARTY.
EMPTY BEER BOTTLES IN CHURCH.
Electric Telegraph—Press . Association CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The desecration of the. English Church at Flaxton by a drunken party who left a litter of empty bottles behind is reported. The intruders damaged kerosene lamps and stole holy vessels, Eucharistic vestments and a kerosene heater. It is believed it was more a. drunken sprete than deliberate theft or profanation, because a few days later men in a car were observed returning the heater. They escaped from pursuit.
The vessels stolen were not intrinsically valuable, plated metal, but they had an age value, as had the vestments also.
At the same time a theft occurred at Clarkville Church, where the Sunday school money-box, containing a few shillings, was stolen.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12440, 5 September 1933, Page 2
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124A DRUNKEN PARTY. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12440, 5 September 1933, Page 2
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