MAN GAOLED IN AUSTRALIA FOR ILLICIT GOLD DEALING
Recd. 7 p.m. Sydney, March 9. Six bars of gold, weighing 105 ounces and worth £lOOO, were involved in charges of illicit gold dealing at Kalgoorlie on which Waiter Stuart McColl in a shed examining the gold Sydney, was sentenced to twelve months" imprisonment with hard labour, and a Kalgoorlie taxi-driver, Kenneth Beer, 36, was fined £5O. A detective inspector said he caught McCool in a shed examining the gold bars. His pockets contained a notebook and pieces of paper containing what appeared to be calculations concerning gold transactions, In accused's room he found a sheaf of telegrams, some of them in code.
The police believe that the case is linked with the traffic of gold through Sydney to Far Eastern markets, where huge profits can be made on its sale.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 10 March 1947, Page 5
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