SEIZURE OF COINS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1931, Page 1

SEIZURE OF COINS

WOMAN AND MAN CIfAIUJHI)

t liy Telei/raph —Per Press Association) WEIJd.YGTON. July 16. This afternoon Chief Detective Hammond and Detective McWhirter went to a room in a city hotel, and, breaking open a wardrobe, they found, and seized, ten large bags of Australian silver coins, and they then arrested a woman named Irene Dobson, aged 35 years, on the charge of importing into 'lew, Zealand prohibited goods, namely Australian silver coins. When the accused came before Mr Gotten, S.M., to-day, at the Police Court. Chief Detective Hammond said that he had arrested last night a man named William Bennett McGregor, aged 52, on a charge of being unlawfully in the possession of l £32 worth ol Australian coin. The man was remanded until duly 23. ‘‘This woman arrived lure on July 14th by the Mararna from .Sydney, said Detective Hammond. ‘‘When we searched her room at the hotel, we » (, t ,ten large bags full of Australian silvei, 'estimated to be between £7OO and £IOOO worth—probably much more, for we have not vet counted it. This woman has been tripping backwards and forwards between Australia and New Zealand since Easter, evidently getting the exchange on the money/’ The female accused was also remanded until July 23 on bail of £l6O. .