UNDER-VALUED
A PARCEL OF GOLD.
(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ABBOCTATION ) WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. Made up as an ordinary registered parcel in the form of a paper consignment, £3OOO in gold from the West Coast to a Wellington bank was mistaken during sorting at the Wellington Post Office for a parcel of lead for letterbag seals and was thrown on one side with empty bags and sent to the telegraph stores. It was discovered by a cheeking clerk at the stores, returned to the G.P.O. and delivered to the bank next day.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 September 1924, Page 5
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90UNDER-VALUED Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 September 1924, Page 5
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