MORE SILVER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21540, 11 July 1933, Page 8

MORE SILVER

SHIPMENT FROM AUSTRALIA ARRIVAL BY MAUNGANUI [by TKTvEGRAPH OWN COBUKSrONDENx] WELLINGTON, Monday • Part of the cargo carried- by the intercolonial steamer Maunganui, which arrived in Wellington this morning from Sydney, was a large consignment of silver for distribution among the banks in New Zealand. The usual crowd that collects on tho Queen's Wharf on tho arrival of overseas ships gathered to watch the unloading of tho silver. The orderly manner in which everything was carried out, however, and the absence of any sign of the importance of the occasion among those concerned in the work soon satisfied tho onlookers' curiosity.

The unloading of tho silver was begun by the time most of the passengers had left the ship and wero iu tho customs shed. From the large etrongroom in the vessel a number of labourers carried small wooden boxes down tho gangway and loaded them on waiting lorries. At the door of the strongroom a tally clerk checked the boxes as they were taken out. Plain-clothes police stood near by to accompany each lorry load as it left the wharf. Passengers on the Maunganui continued to uso the gangway as freely as before, and they often squeezed close to the handrail to allow a small fortune of silver to pass in some labourer's arms.