Robbery at Mauke

Cook Is. Trading Co.’s Loss

From Our Own Correspondent.

ON the night of September 18, or early the following morning, the Cook Islands Trading Company’s store at Mauke (Cook Islands) was broken into and the safe and con tents were stolen. The safe is said to have contained £88/6/8.

A back window of the store was forced and the storeroom door was left open. On September 19, the safe was found about a mile away by some women, washing in a taro swamp. The safe had been cut into several pieces, an axe apparently having been used. So far no trace of the thief has been found.