PROPERTY STOLEN.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLIV, Issue 38, 24 September 1919, Page 571

PROPERTY STOLEN.

Auckland. —4th ultimo, from a dressing-room in Darby’s buildings, the property of CAROLINE PALEY, 36 Queen Street, a ladies’ brown-leather handbag, 9 in. by 12 in.; a small black handbag, containing nine £1 notes, a 10s. note, and a Post Office Savings-bank book, No. 309451, with “ Caroline Paley ” on cover: total value, £l2. Identifiable except money.

Paeroa. —23rd July last, from a package in the railwaystation, the property of the NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT (Railway Department), an eight-chamber repeater German field service automatic revolver; value, £lO. . Identifiable.

Rotorua. —6th instant, from a motor-car while outside Lake House Hotel, the property of THORNTON WALKER, land agent, a gentlemen’s double-breasted dark-tweed heavy overcoat, with pockets; a brown-leather handbag, about 22 in. by 15 in. by 12 in., with end clips and a spring lock, containing a grey coat and vest, a soft shirt, underpants, and singlet: total value, £l3 ss. . Identifiable.

Wanganui. —4th instant, from Maria Place, the property of HARRY ASHFORD, taxi-driver, a red-painted 5-st-ater Allan motor-car, engine No. 1112, registered No. W.G. 1593, black bonnet; value, £375. Identifiable.

Lower Hutt.— January last, from the Bellevue Hotel, the property of D. E. HUGHES, Hutt Road, a pair of eight power prismatic field-glasses, made by Carl Zeiss, Jena, in a leather case with owner’s name written on it; value, £4O. Identifiable.

Petone. —10th instant, from a veranda at the dwelling of PATRICK QUEALY, Catholic priest, Britannia Street, a gentlemen’s black - enamelled 24 in. bicycle, Nos. 14656 and L 16216, English pattern, Eadie Coaster hub, rat-trap pedals, new upturned handles, front-rim brake, Palmer tires; value, £5. Identifiable.

Wellington South. 4th instant, . from Featherston Street, the property of JOHN W. ROBERTS, 9 Harper Street, a gentlemen’s black-enamelled 22 in. B.S.A. bicycle, No. 03068, upturned handles with brown grips, rubber pedals, back-pedalling brake, dents on left side of back fork, mud-guards attached ; value, £l2. Identifiable.

Dunedin. —Between the 9th and 30th July last, from cases at Port Chalmers, the property of the UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY, an electroplated coffee-pot lid, six electroplated toast-racks, twenty-eight electroplated mustard-pots, four sauce-boats, an electroplated cruet-rack, an electroplated glass ring, two electroplated fish-knives, a set of “ Potosi ” fish-servers, an electroplated sugar spoon, a sugar-crusher, a teaspoon, eleven egg-spoons, a napkin-ring, three electroplated teapots, three water-jug lids, an electroplated milk-jug, two “Potosi” dessert-spoons, a “Potosi” teapot, and a “Potosi” water-jug lid, all stamped with “ U.S.S. Coy.” ; total value, £52 16s. 2d. Identifiable.