SNEAK THEFTS.
VEGETABLES STOLEN FROM THE SICK. CASHMERE SANATORIUM CARDEN ROBBED. | “ Early last week some persons dug up and t-ook away from the Cashmere Hills Sanatorium garden probably about three sacks of uev.' potatoes,” reported l>i* G. .T. Blackmore at to-day’s meeting of the Hospital Board. “ The theft was carried out at night, and must have been planned, as the thieves had to walk right through the garden from one end to the other to reach the potato patch. Judging by the footsteps more than one person was concerned. On several occasions vegetables have been stolen from the gaiden at night time in this wav. “ The vegetables are grown here so that the patients may e;et them perfectly fresh from the garden and so derive the mosfc benefit from them. The thieves, therefore, have really stolen articles intended for the sick. It is difficult to conceive of persons who can be so lacking in a sense of decency and honesty as| to steal from an institution which is catering for the public generally’, and an institution to which the thieves themselves may some day have to apply for help and treatment. *' I do not kno« whether anything can be done to bring home t-o these people the particularly mean nature of their thefts, but possibly a little publicity may do some good.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16641, 25 January 1922, Page 6
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222SNEAK THEFTS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16641, 25 January 1922, Page 6
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