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INJURED MAN’S STORY HARBOUR BOARD MONEY STOLEN [ Per Press Association. 7 INVERCARGILL, Dee. I. A sensational affair is reported from Bluff, where Arthur Valentine, accountant to the Harbour Board, was found at about 10.30 a.m. lying unconscious in the Board’s office with a wound on the head, and a sum of approximately £2OO missing, having presumably been taken by his assailant. Valentine states that he was making up pay sheets when he received a violent blow from behind, and remembered nothing till the police arrived an hour later. At the time of the occurrence most of the Bluff poeple were on the wharf seeing the motor tug and ferry Southland, off on her first trial to Stewart Island Detectives’ are investigating the matter. Arthur Valentine, the victim of the Bluff robbery, seen by a reporter, stated that it was possible for the thief to hide behind a door within a distance of four feet of where he was working.
No more than half a dozen visitors came to the office that morning and he had not heard any noise at the time. He was convinced that whoever took the money was conversant with the working of the office. A large amount of money lying in a basket in the strongroom w r as not touched.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20013, 2 December 1927, Page 8
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