A guest in a private hotel at Ilawera is stated to have been relieved of £34 on Wednesday evening w'hen his trousers were removed from under the mattress of his bed. A Press Association telegram says that the loss was discovered in the early hours of the morning. It was then found that two casuals who had booked at the hotel together had disappeared. The case is the fifth in two days of reported depredations of thieves at llawera. Two magnificent silver cups ate, according to a Press Association telegram from Hamilton, to be by Mr Halliburton Johnstone for competition among New Zealand oavsnw.j. in four-oar contests. The cups originally were the property of the Duke of Buccleuch.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19107, 27 June 1930, Page 16
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