GOLD TREASURE
DISCOVERY ON AN ISLAND TEN MILLION POUNDS WORTH INGOTS OF INCAS’ TIMES REPUTED PIRATES’ CACHE By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Motreal, April 11. A Group of treasure hunters tracing a reputedly enormous cache of pirate gold through researches at Sydney have discovered over £10,000,000 worth of metal on an island in the Tuamotu Archipelago, under IF feet of sand and water, states an Associated Press dispatch from Tahiti. The French Government is reported to have placed a guard over the spot. The finders are now organising an engineering expedition in the hope of lifting to the surface 25 tons of wedgeshaped gold ignots dating back to the Inca times of Peru.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1934, Page 7
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