SAWMILL PAY ROLL DISAPPEARS.
THEFT OF £4OO
Invercargill, February 15.
A robbery is reported from the Riverton district. Early yesterday morning the sum of over .£4OO, wages for sawmill hands, was sto- !( u from a locomotive which is attached to Moore’s sawmill in the Loiigwouds, and is used to convey the pay roll from a Rvierton ‘hank to the mill. It is understood Hint the locomotive, which was in (-barge of a driver ami fireman, left Riverton as usual early yesterday morning with tin- wages for the sawmill hands. The mill is about 15 miles from Ri\erton in a dense hush country, and when about a mile and a half from the mill the locomotive was stopped In load some gravel, necessitating the temporary vacation of the cab by the fireman and driver. It is alleged that here the bag containing the iiuuiev was missed.
The police are investigating. The I.ongwood district is well-known sawmilling country in which several mills are opera led. Moore’s mill is an old-established one and the pay roll has been eonI'cyed in a similar manner for upwards of 20 years without mishap.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4416, 18 February 1930, Page 2
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187SAWMILL PAY ROLL DISAPPEARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4416, 18 February 1930, Page 2
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