Gold Bar Stolen From Mailroom of Liner
NO INSURANCE OR REGISTRATION, United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Beeeived Sunday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. The disappearance of a gold ingot worth 14,000 dollars from the mailroom of the French licer Paris war responsible for an all-day search of the vessel which failed to reveal the 331 b. piece. A carter taking the mailbags from the vessel to the post office discovered the slip. The big shipment consisted of 421 bars consigned from a Switzerland firm to a local bank. It was sent by ordinary parcel post without insurance or registration, a practice recently adopted by some shippers due to the high freight and insurance rates on gold.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 14, 18 January 1937, Page 6
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