Mail Bag Of Gold From Auckland Stolen
(Rec. 1 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day A mail bag of gold, stated to bo worth approximately £2OOO, was stolen in Sydney yesterday. When opened in Melbourne the bag contained nuts and bolts. It was loaded at Auckland and consigned to the Melbourne Mint.. It was stated' that the mail bag was apparently intact when the plane arrived in Sydney. The police are believed to be working on the theory that the bag was exchanged in Sydney’ for another exactly the same in appearance and weight. They are puzzled as to how the thief knew the weight of gold so exactly that he could substitute an identical bag containing the same weight of nuts and bolts. They are also trying to discover how the movements of the two planes which carried the bag were so intimately known. Extensive inquiries are now being made in New South Wales and Victoria.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1945, Page 5
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