SANATORIUM LOSES VEGETABLES AS RESULT OF RAID.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17995, 4 November 1926, Page 15

SANATORIUM LOSES VEGETABLES AS RESULT OF RAID.

Thieving from the gardens of the Sanatorium, Cashmere Hills, has been going on almost throughout the year. Things have been stolen from the gardens, fruit, vegetables, flowers, plants, all taken by some contemptible thief or thieves. The matter has been reported to the police more than once, without success in catching the marauder, while the gardener, Mr Marlin has repeatedly come up at nighttime and daybreak without being able to effect a capture.

Matters reached a serious point between 5.30 a m. and 6 a m. on Tuesday morning, when one of the Coronation Hospital patients, who was going to the foot of the hill for the newspapers, saw a man come out ol the garden with a sugar-bag full of plants on his back. As soon as he was seen, the man ran off and escaped on a bicycle which he had at the foot of the hill. When the gardeners came on duty it was discovered that a considerable number of plants had been removed from the forcing frame. Dr G. J. Blackmore, medical director of the Sanatorium, hopes that the Hospital Board will be able to do something to cope with the situation. He thinks that serious consideration will have to be given to having the head gardener living on the premises, in the hope that that might have a deterrent effect.