A CLEVER JOBBERY.
One of our wholesale firms (says the Napier Telegraph) received a case from London securely bound with stout wire, and sealed with wax, but very light in weight, which caused some suspicion to the consignees. The wire was cut, the lid knocked off, and the zinc lining cut round, when the case was found to contain but two packages of spoons and the packing paper. On the case being turned bottom up it was discovered that the wire had previously been cleanly cut, a board removed, and a square hole cut in the zinc, through which .£25 worth of cutlery had been abstracted. The jneee of zinc, the board and the wire had then been neatly replaced, so that ifc required very close inspection to detect that they had ever been tampered with.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5686, 3 October 1896, Page 4
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136A CLEVER JOBBERY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5686, 3 October 1896, Page 4
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