TIMBER WORKERS' WAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 9

TIMBER WORKERS ' WAGES

A SOUTHLAND ROBBERY. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, February IG. A sensational robbery is reported from the Riverton district. Early yesterday morning the sum of over £4OO, representing wages for sawmill hands, was stolen from a locomotive which is attached to Moore’s sawmill in the Longwoods, and which is used to convey the pay roll from the Riverton Bank to the mill. It is understood that the locomotive, which was in charge of a driver and fireman, left Riverton us usual early yesterday morning with the wages foi' the sawmill hands. The mill is about 15 miles from Riverton, situated in dense bush country, and when it was about a mile and a half from the mill, the locomotive was stopped to load some gravel, this necessitating the temporary vacation of the engine by the fireman and driver. It is alleged that here the bag containing the money was missed. The Longwood district is well known sawmilling country, in which several mills are operating. Moore’s mill is an old-established one, and the pay roll has been conveyed in a similar manner for upwards of 20 years without mishap.