STOLEN MAILBAGS
All Four Thought To Have Been Destroyed
Dominion Special Service.
NAPIER, January 12.
The belief that the mailbags were stolen from ijie Napier-Gisborne mail van on Saturday night while the van wins ascending the hill near Morere is held by the police, who reported today that indications were that all four missing bags had been destroyed by lire.
It is assumed that the thief or thieves boarded the van from the back while- it was climbing in second gear, and the noise of the engine, it is thought, prevented the driver from sensing anything unusual. and the task of the thief in selecting Ihr mailbags and removing them from the buck of the van would have been comparatively easy. Only one of the missing bags contained registered packages, and the police are making an effort to locate lite people who forwarded registered packages to the Gisborne district by .Saturday's mail. Senders ol registered packages bearing the following numbers are asked to communicate with tlie police: 10(57 (Hastings to Gisborne). 182 (Waipukurau to Gisborne), (508 (Dnnnevirkf to Gisborne), 947 (I’lihiatmi fo Gisborne), 1424 Wanganui to Motuhorn).
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 5
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187STOLEN MAILBAGS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 5
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