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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 1

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Treasure Unlikely to Have Been Found. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 13. The Sydney “ Sun ” to-night publishes a story concerning the pirate gold in the Paumoto Archipelago, referred to in a message from Montreal yesterday. The “Sun” states that Mr Harold Sampson, of North Sydney, who returned from Tahiti by the Maunganui on April 7, declares that he is an Australian member of the London syndicate which is the only one searching for fourteen tons of gold, worth approximately £5,000,000, on an island in the Paumoto Archipelago. He insists that it cannot be true that the treasure has been found, as cabled vesterday. “When I left,” he said, “we had found the spot where, according to certain markings, the treasure should be hidden, but it was inaccessible to ordinary methods of discovery. We believe we are on the point of success. My return to Sydney is to purchase sand pumps and other equipment necessary for the penetration of the sand where we believe the gold is hidden. The plant should be delivered to this remote island before the end of the month.” The Mexican Consul here, who spent three years in Tahiti, declared that the search for the buried treasure in the Paumoto Archipelago had been carried on for a hundred years. He added. “There is no doubt that it exists, but it is scarcely possible that it has yet been discovered.” The Vancouver correspondent of the “Sun” says that there is no confirmation there or in the United States that the treasure has been found.