CLUE TO HIDDEN TREASURE.
Mr. Arthur Hill, a Brighton man. believes he has discovered the spo* where treasure worth millions of pounds lies buried on Cocos Island, and he is planning an expedition t > the Pacific to recover it. The treasure is reputed to have been taken to Cocos Island from Lima, the Peruvian cap - tal, and Mr. Hill says that he learned the secret of its hiding place from an old text-book which he bought at a second-hand bookstall. “I found a faded chart of Cocos Island in the back of the book, and this indicated the whereabouts of the treasure," Mr. Hill said.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19484, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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105CLUE TO HIDDEN TREASURE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19484, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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