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Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 July 1936Vol. VI, No. 12

Papuan Visitor Robbed

p. 76 · Read in the full issue

In Melbourne

ON a visit to her daughters in Victoria, Mrs. D. Irvine, of Giligili Plantation.

Samarai, Papua, was robbed of jewellery valued at more than £2OO by a thief who late at night entered her East Melbourne flat early in July.

Gaining entrance through a window, the intruder took Mrs. Irvine’s pearls and diamonds, including a pearl worth £l5O.

Earlier in the evening, one of her daugh ters heard a noise in the bedroom, but on investigating found nothing amiss.