MAILBAG STOLEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 26, 23 September 1931, Page 3

MAILBAG STOLEN

Pre«a AssniMntinn—

-"Post" Special Service.

MISSING FROM TRAIN REGISTERED MAIL DISAPPEARS BETWEEN HASTINGS AND NAPIER SEACH PROVES FRUITLESS

— C!onvrie:ht.

By Telephone-

HASTINGS, Tuesday. What is apparently a mailbag robbery took place on the six o'clock train from Hastings,- to Napier last evening. The bag contained a quantity of registered mail, and was missing from tbe train when the lat- i ter arrived lit Napier. There was also other mail in the bag. An officer of the Hastings Post : Office took the mailbag to the train, and was seen by Mr. Riddell, pro- ■ prietor of the station bpokstall, to put it in the mail van. It was put in a position of apparent security, and the whole transaction was carried ■ out with the usual care and caution. It was not until the train reached Napier that the loss was discovered, and further investigations led to the belief that the bag was taken before the train left Clive, half -way between Hastings and Napier.

The police were notihed, and om- v cial search parties riding'jiggers and on foot set out at a very early hour this morning to search the railway line and the land skirting it. There was a hope that the bag might have fallen out of the van to the side of the line, but a thorough \i search leads to the conclusion that the hope was in vain. There seems little doubt that the bag was stolen.