THEFT OF WOOL
SEVEN BALES REMOVED QUICK ARREST MADE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. For stealing seven bales of wool, Valued at £5O, from the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Coy., Nimon Hereford Ritchie, 34, machinist, was sentenced to three months’ gaol. He hid in the store before the staff left, loaded the bales on to a lorry which he had ordered to come, and told the carrier to deliver them to a certain firm. Next day he called on the firm and obtained a cheque for £3O. He was unable to cash the cheque before he was arrested.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 154, 9 July 1934, Page 8
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