A VALUABLE CARGO
£250,000 IN GOLD COIN (L'ti Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this tUiy. Filly boxes lontaimng C 250.000 in s.jld coin comprised the must vahiaMe portion of ilie; cargo unloaded .'if Wellitigtoii I'i'nin the Mainiganiii soon after tliu vessel's arrival from Sydney ycsierUV. Th" shipment was i 'unsigned [n die Hank of New S.mdi Wales! The boxes, w hifli were' heavily *.< sistr'ueted, and aboul the size (if a olb bov of test, were earned down a galigivii\ from the forward portion of Ihe ship and loaded on to a motor lorry over which two members of the police force kept gnadi.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 10
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101A VALUABLE CARGO Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 10
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