ROBBERY IN BUSH.
OYER £4OO STOLEN.
WAGES FOR SAWMILL HANDS.
TAKEN FROM LOCOMOTIVE.
CREW'S TEMPORARY ABSENCE.
[BT TELEGRAPH.—rRESS ASSOCIATION.] INVERCARGILL, Sunday.
A sensational robbery is reported from the Riverton district. Early yesterday morning a sum of over £4OO, representing wages for sawmill hands, was stolen from a locomotive which is attached to Moore s sawmill in the Longwoods district and in which the pay-roll was being carried from a Riverton bank to the mill. It is understood that the locomotive, which was in the charge of a drivel and fireman, left Riverton as usual early yesterday morning with the wages for the sawmill hands. The mill is about 15 miles' from Riverton in dense bush country* When about a mile and a-half from the mill the locomotive was stopped to load some gravel, necessitating the temporary vacation of the engine by the fireman and driver. It is alleged that hero the bag containing the money was missed. The Longwood district is a well-known sawmilling country in which several mills are operating. Moore's mill is an oldestablished one and the pay-roll has been conveyed on a locomotive for upwards of 20 years without mishap.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20491, 17 February 1930, Page 8
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193ROBBERY IN BUSH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20491, 17 February 1930, Page 8
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