COUNTERFEIT COINS
ALLEGED MAKER ARRESTED.
(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRBBS ASSOCIATION.) , AUCKLAND, 12th October. The police to-night, armed with a search warrant, visited the residence in Grey street of Thomas Nelson Mel-» lors, aged about thirty-five, who is suspected of being connected with the recent circulation of counterfeit coin. Mellors, who occupies a portion of an apartment Tiouse in Grey street, is stated to have been discovered in the act of making coins, and was arrested. About fifty counterfeit half-crowns and florins and five moulds for making these coins, and shillings, together with the constituents of such coins, were discovered on the premises, which Mellors has occupied for about six months.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1922, Page 8
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108COUNTERFEIT COINS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1922, Page 8
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