UNGUARDED BULLION.
BOXES QF GOLD STOLEN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Nov. 24, 3.15 p.m. CAPETOWN, Nov. 23. On October 27 twenty-four boxes of Rhodesian raw gold, valued at £40,000, were despatched to Capetown, where on Gct-obpr 31 they were shipped by fhe steamer Armadale for London. On arrival there it was discovered that three boxes of gold had been replace with lead. _ There were no signs of the bpxes having bpen tampered with before being consigned to the railway.— Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 November 1924, Page 7
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81UNGUARDED BULLION. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 November 1924, Page 7
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