Second Smash-and-Grab

Raid in Central Suva

ANOTHER, night smash-and-grab raid at Suva, when a plate glass window at Parekh Brothers’ shop, at the corner of Pier Street and Renwick Road, was broken and 15 watches were stolen, has increased the demand for more police protection at night.

A similar robbery occured at a shop opposite the Post Office several months ago and none of the stolen property has been re covered.

Property owners and shopkeepers are asking why more policemen are not seen on the streets at night.

They maintain that doing the rounds in a patrol car is not enough, and that a criminal has only to wait for the car to pass to know that he has ample time to carry out a speedy job with a brick wrapped in cloth, grab the loot, and disappear. t A 300-lb war-time Japanese mine floated into Rabaul (NG) harbour one Sunday in November and was found by natives. Experts who ex ploded it said it was an underwater magnetic type that had apparently broken from its sea-bed moorines.