A CHURCH ROBBED.
Vestments Stolen From St Mary’s, Merivale. Six cassocks, eight stoles, and several book-marks were stolen by thieves ■who entered St Mary’s Church, Merivale, on Friday night last. It is stated that the articles later played a part in a sensationl episode on Cashmere Hills. When they were recovered the cassocks had been adorned with the aid of the stoles and book-marks and eye-holes had been cut in the material. “ It looks as if they were wanted for an initiation ceremony—though I do not know who was going to act as High Priest,” said Archdeacon P. B. Haggitt, telling of the theft this morning. The church was left open, he said, and some time during the night the thieves entered and robbed the vestry. The vestments were all that were taken. At the .services at the church yesterday, “ we just had to do without them,” said jthe archdeacon.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 8
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150A CHURCH ROBBED. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 8
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