EXPENSIVE MISHAP.
GOLD INGOTS IN WATER. PARIS, Feb. 23. A mishap which is likely to prove very expensive occurred at Cherbourg Docks to-day. When 426 boxes cf gold from New York were being unloaded from the Berengaria, the chain broke and ten boxes fell on the quayside and burst open, the contents- of six falling into the water. The value is £IOO,OOO. Divers were summoned, but salvage will be most difficult ns the ingots, weighing fifty pounds apieco, are buried in deep mud.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 73, 25 February 1932, Page 7
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83EXPENSIVE MISHAP. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 73, 25 February 1932, Page 7
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