PROPERTY STOLES.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 41, 16 October 1912, Page 561

PROPERTY STOLES.

Queen Street Whare (Auckland). —Between the 18th and 25th ultimo, from the hold of the “Maheno,” between Sydney and Auckland, the property of GEORGE GROOM, school-teacher, a ladies’ long smoke-coloured cloth coat, trimmed with a large quantity of black braid, white turnedin reefers at neck, value £2 10s. ; a ladies’ yellow Japanese fox-fur with two natural heads and tails, one tail worn and moth-eaten, lining out of repair, value £3 10s. ; a gentlemen’s heavy overcoat (known as a blanket coat), dark-grey colour, with a faint green stripe running through it, greystriped lining, belt attached ; value, £4 10s. Identifiable.

Takapuna. —4th instant, the dwelling of T. B. LEWIS, Takapuna, was broken into, and the following stolen: A ladies’ bracelet set three large opals and pearls, a very uncommon design, “ Presented to Mrs. T. B. Lewis by the Building and Contractors’ Exchange, Melbourne, 1899,” engraved on the inside, chain broken, value £10; an American dollar brooch, gilded with gold; a gold spray brooch, set with emerald in centre, value £3 ; a round silver mirror, embossed back, value 12s. 6d.; a ladies’ open-faced nickel Waterbury watch in leather wristlet, a small nickel band on inside of wristlet, value about £l. Identifiable.

Newton. —18th or 19th ultimo, from the bedroom of MURIEL SLYE, Burgoyne Street, a ladies’ 18 ct. gold dress ring, set with three rubies and two diamonds, bridge setting, No. 250 k, anchor and crown on inside of the ring ; value, £lO. Identifiable.

Palmerston North. —7th instant, from the bedroom of PERCY JACKSON, schoolmaster, fourteen £1 notes on the Bank of New Zealand; two threepenny pieces (very black); papers and letters with “ P. G. Jackson,” thereon; a double 15 ct. gold watch-chain similar to No. 29 in Police Gazette Illustrations, gold cross attached, inscribed “ P. G. Jackson from B. Wyeth”; a plain silver sovereign-case; a pocket-knife with three blades; a siik handkerchief with “ J.” thereon ; and a dark-tweed suit of clothes with a white stripe running through it : totU value, £22 10s. Identifiable.

Palmerston North. Phoenix Hotel, Palmerston North, the property of DENIS O’KEEFE, labourer, a gentlemen’s Centaur bicycle, No. 208, steel mud-guards, upturned handle-bars, no brakes, fixed wheel; value, £4. Identifiable.

Palmerston North.— 23rd ultimo, from the Square, Palmerston North, a gentlemen’s free-wheel Red Bird bicycle, No. 172142, hub brake, leather grips, wooden mud-guards.; value, £9. Identifiable.

Palmerston North. —21st ultimo, from outside Watson Bros.’ shop, the property of JOSEPH KROUPA, a gentlemen’s free-wheel B.S.A. bicycle, No. 70171, straight handles, new front wheel with Oceanic cover, steel mud-guards ; value £7. Identifiable.

Foxton.— 3oth ultimo, from the property of ALBERT JOHN GIBBS, a gentlemen’s Brantford redenamelled bioycle, 24 in. frame, new Dunlop tires, upturned handles, leather grips ; value, £lO. Identifiable.

Masterton. —sth or 6th instant, Macara’s sample-rooms, William Street, were broken into, and the following goods, the property of ABBOTT, ORAM, AND CO., stolen : Two dozen fancy socks, value £1 14s. ; three white Japanese-silk shirts, without collars, sizes 15, 15£, and 16, value £1 10s. ; four fancy bow ties ; two sets military brushes in tanleather cases, value 18s. ; a ladies’ grey Japanese dressinggown, fancy embroidery, value £1 Is.; four ladies’ fancy fringe bags, about 6 in. to 8 in. square, value £1; a blue bag, with gold fittings, value 10s. Identifiable.

Murchison. Between the 27th August last and 27th ultimo, from a portmanteau, between Oamaru and Murchison, the property of the REV. JOHN COMMON, a new darkooloured sac worsted suit, “ J. H. Milligan and Co., Tailors, Oamaru,” on tab, maker’s name also on the trouser-buttons, value £5; a pair of bluish-grey sergerette trousers, cross-cut pockets, “Stevenson and Grant” on buttons, value 10s.; two pairs of woollen under-pants, with “J. Common” thereon, value 135.; a pair of pyjama pants, with purple stripe, value 4s. Identifiable.

Christchurch. —Between the 7th and 14th ultimo, from the Drill-shed, the property of the NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT, an oil-stone, two 9 in. squares, two foldingrules, a smoothing-plane, a carpenter’s punch, a carpenter’s brace, sixteen bits, six chisels, two cold-chisels, a screwdriver, two gimlets, and eight bradawls; total value, £3. Identifiable. The cold-chisels and punch are marked with a broad arrow, and the woodwork of the other tools have “ C. E. V.” on them.

Christchurch. —Between 20th August last and 7th instant, from the hut of ROBERT KENNETT, watchmaker, a pair of black-coloured telescopic adjustable binoculars, old-fashioned make, leather strap attached, value £7 10s.; a leather belt with sheath and knife, value 15s. Identifiable.

Lyttelton. —Between the 21st and 23rd ultimo, on the s.s. “ Mararoa ” or in the Customs shed, the property of CHARLES JOHN BADHAM, Christchurch, a ladies’ 9ct. gold keyless watch with gold hands, enclosed by a 9 ct. gold-plated wristlet; value, £3 15s. Identifiable.

Pleasant Point. —2sth ultimo, from the Pleasant Point Hotel Stables, the property of FRED WESTOBY, a gentlemen’s Massey-Harris bicycle, enamel scraped off the front forks, a Massey-Harris wheel on the front, and a B.S.A. wheel on the back, parcel-carrier behind ; value, £5. Identiable.