ARMED GUARD.
£250,000 IN BANK NOTES.
ARRIVAL IN SOUTH ISLAND.
Unobtrusive passengers to Christchurch from Lyttelton on a recent morning were several hank officers and an armed guard of police. Their luggage (states the "Star-Sun") consisted only of ten seliled cases, but they contained Reserve Bank notes to the value of more than £250,000. The notes will in due course be distributed throughout Christchurch and the South Island', probably in anticipation of the larger pay-roll for the civil servants at the end of the month, and largely to replace soiled notes already in circulation.
The valuable cargo arrived by the inter-island steamer Rangatira from Wellington and two constables from Christchurch, issued with revolvers for the occasion, met the vessel shortly after she berthed.
The cases were transferred from the ship's strongroom to a first-class carriage, and the party travelled to Christchurch without incident. On arrival at the railway station the cases were transferred to a van and taken to the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., in Hereford Street, from where the notes will be distributed.
Few people were aware that anything out of the ordinaly was happening, and little notice was taken of the official party.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 11
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196ARMED GUARD. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 11
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