MAILS STOLEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11874, 7 July 1924, Page 6

MAILS STOLEN

FROM HOME STEAMER REGISTERED DOCUMENTS TAKEN FROM HOLD. LINER’S-EVENTFUL VOYAGE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July G. A quantity of mail matter wae stolen on the Waimana on route from Liverpool to Auckland. The theft was discovered when officers inspected No. 2 hold in which the mails were carried to ascertain if damage had been done by a leakage during a storm a few days before reaching port. Investigations by detectives and postal officers showed that a number of bags had. -been' cut open, and pilfered and that rate had oaueed further damage.

The mail consisted of 347 bags from Britain for all parts of New Zealand. The hold had hot been opened unt<l the officers visited it.

Grease on so-me of the bags shows that a candle was used by the thieves who took, among other tnings, documents from the registered mail. It is not knqwn yet how much mail was stolen. DEATH OF CHIEF ENGINEER. The arrival of the Waimana Was otherwise marked by untoward imppeniriga as the chief engineer, T. VY. Hunter, aged about fifty years, was fottnd dead in his bunk yesterday morning from natural causes. He was a married man with no children. Hi* wife resides at Liverpool. SEAMAN RECEIVES SEVERE CONCUSSION.

A seaman fell from the top of the gangway to the wharf yesterday morning and received a severe concussion. He recovered consciousness in tho hospital last night.