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The equivalent of half a day’s palliative care was stolen Thursday from the North Haven Hospice shop in Whangarei.
Proceeds from the two rings worth over $4000 was money vital to support terminally ill Northlanders.
The theift is a major blow to the charity, as it must raise roughly $8000 daily to keep afloat.
The store’s retail manager Kathy McMillan said a man and a woman, who appeared to be in their 20s, had defied the shop’s alarms during Tuesday night’s break-in.
Around 3am the pair could be seen on CCTV using a tool at the base of the door to shift the large wooden chocks securing the entrance.
“It looked like they knew exactly what they were after,” McMillan said. Read more
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