BURGLARY EPIDEMIC
THE AUCKLAND VISITATION. THREE ADDITIONAL CASES REPORTED. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, May 6. More burglaries have occurred at Otahuhu. While music was being played in the front room of a house occupied by Mr G. Arkinstall, manager of Kempthorne Prosser’s Westfield Works, a burglar evidently in stockinged feet entered the other front room by way of the window and stole a handbag and £6 12/- which was in a jewel-box. Peter Turnbull’s dwelling about a mile away was also visited and jewellery valued at several pounds stolen from the front room while the occupants were at the back of the house. A nearly completed house at Edendale was raided by burglars and kits of tools valued at several pounds were stolen.
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Southland Times, Issue 20173, 9 May 1927, Page 8
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124BURGLARY EPIDEMIC Southland Times, Issue 20173, 9 May 1927, Page 8
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