SOVEREIGNS IN BOTTLE
BURIED ON SEASHORE
CLAIMANT APPEARS (Elea Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received February 3, 3 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 3. Herman Thiol, who" has just returned from Germany, claims £215 found by a Boy Scout, in the shape of sovereigns and half .sovereigns in a buttle buried on the shore of Sirins Cove. Mosman. in October last. The treasure was handed to the police. Mr. Thiel .says ho withdrew the money from a bank in 1915 and buried it. for safety, as he mistrusted banks. Last year he tried to find the spot, but sewerage works had disturbed the landmarks. He dug around for weeks, fruitlessly, and then sailed for Germany. Three weeks later a. Boy Scout earthed the hoard.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19300203.2.115
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17174, 3 February 1930, Page 11
Word Count
121SOVEREIGNS IN BOTTLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17174, 3 February 1930, Page 11
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.