£9OO STOLEN
PENSIONERS’ MONEY,
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, December 10
While two postal officials were transferring nine hundred pounds of pension funds from the William 'Street Post Office in Darliughurst to-day, two masked and armed men bailed them up in a lane way. They threw pepper in the eyes of their victims and stole fdl o( s the money, They fired a shot and then escaped through a block of flats. Two women were witnesses of the alfair, but It hey were unable to render any assistance. The money was being taken to a nearby church hall for payment to old age and invalid pensioners, wlio went without it for the time being.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1931, Page 5
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113£900 STOLEN Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1931, Page 5
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