PAY ROLL STOLEN

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1930, Page 3

PAY ROLL STOLEN

OFF SAWMILL ENGINE

[By. Telegraph, Per Press Association

INVERCARGILL, Feb. 16

A sensational robbery is reported from the Riverton district. Early yesterday morning the sum of over £409, representing wages for sawmill hands, Was stolen from a. locomotive which is attached to Moore’s sawmill i,s the Longwoods, and which is used', to, conrey the payroll,, from the Riverton Bank to the Mill. It is understood that the locomotive, which was in charge o-f a driver and fireman, left Riverton as usual early yesterday, morning with, the wages for the sawmill, hands. The mill is about 15 miles,from Riverton, situated in. dense hush 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 tiie engine by the fireman and driver. It is alleged that here the bag containing the money was missed. The police are investigating.

The Longwood district is well known sawmilling country, in which several mills are operating, Moore's?. mill is an old-established, pne. and the payroll lias been csoiiveyetl fin p, similar manlier for upwards of, twenty .years without mishap. ;, ....... ~