More Info →"A Speedy Recovery" Stolen Items Returned to Shopkeeper

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7 January, 1964. "At 7 a.m. today, Mr A. L. Hughes, the proprietor of the Watchpost jewellery shop on the top floor of the P.D.C., reported to the Palmerston North police that his shop had been broken into and a considerable amount of stock had been stolen. At 8.20 a.m., a matter of one hour and 20 minutes, detectives had detained a man, and the property had been recovered. Mr Hughes is seen making an inventory of his recovered stock."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

January 6, 1964

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_018279

Format

B&W negative

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