VALUABLE GOWN LOST
CRINOLINE 80 YEARS OLD THEFT FROM MOTOR CAR A valuable moire satin crinoline gown about 80 years old, an Indian hand-embroidered silk gauze shawl mere than 100 years old, and a number of real lace antimacassars were stolen on Tuesday night from a car .parked in a parking-place in Mercer street, Wellington. Their 'owner, a Wellington Woman, left them in a suitcase in her car while she attended a play in the Town Hall Concert Chamber. When She returned to the car after the performance, she was dismayed to nnd that the suitcase and its contents had' disappeared.
The articles were absolutely irreplaceable, said the owner. The gown, trimmed with real lace, had been worn by her grandmother at a Government House ball in the fifties, and the shawl was also an heirloom. The loss of the antimacassars was made worse because one of them had been borrowed. The articles were of no value to anybody else, but the loss to her family was severe. The gown had been offered for use during the Centennial celebrations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19961, 12 June 1939, Page 7
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179VALUABLE GOWN LOST Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19961, 12 June 1939, Page 7
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