INTERFERENCE WITH MAIL BAG
OVER £IOO STOLEN l tiy Telegraph Press Association) INVERCARGILL. This Day. The police have lor the past few days j been making inquiries concerning inter- ; fcrence with a mail bag containing registered letters from workmen employed in the Hollyford Valley. It is estimated that the money stolen exceeded ; £IOO. Workmen had been paid on j Wednesday evening, and a large num- I ber of them had posted various i amounts to their wives and dependents in time to catch the outward mail next j evening. The bag was left in a billiard room adjoining the post office, sealed and ready for despatch the following | morning. The bag was picked up by | the contractor and brought to Lumsden. where a slit was discovered by the act- 1 ing-postmaster and reported to the police, who so far arc without a clue.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 6
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