NO CLUE TO THEFT
n.z. stamp collection 'officials alarmed i„I <P«sr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. No. further clue has been found to the person or persons who sitole the New Zealand stamp collection from the Dominion Museum last week: The director, Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, said; yesterday that investigations had so far proved fruitless . He said that only one stamp in the collection was of particular value. This was a brown Ghristchurch exhibition stamp valued at £lO. It was one of a special issue which appeared first in one colour and was afterwards recalled and re-issued in another colour. Only a single sheet of the brown stamps was put up for sale and the specimens"were consequently rare and valuable. The main value of the collection, however, was iin its. complete and representative nature. Museum .officers are alarmed by the theft, as they consider the use of the service lift indicates the culprit was someone familiar with the running of the museum. Meantime, the missing cases have not been replaced, their absence leaving a conspicuous gap in the set of 12 cases arranged on the south wall of the museum. j i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 16
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193NO CLUE TO THEFT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 16
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