BOY SCOUT’S FIND
“TREASURE HUNT” PROVES REAL. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). SYDNEY, Oct. 20. A Boy Scouts’ “treasure hunt” game near the Taronga Park Zoo yesterday had an unexpectedly realistic denouncement, when, at a point where the soil was worn by the weather,. one boy noticed the bright glint of metal. An examination of this disclosed a shining receptacle, containing about three hundred pounds sterling in sovereigns and half sovereigns,- which- is supposed to have -‘been buried -ten or fifteen years ago, probably as the result of some robbery. The search was part of the Scout troops’ training in resource and perception. - , • -
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1929, Page 6
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103BOY SCOUT’S FIND Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1929, Page 6
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