LOST FOR TWO YEARS
VALUABLES RECOVERED CASH-BOX IN MILK-CAN Press Association NAPIER, Wednesday. Mr. Frederick Roper, now of Waiheke, Auckland, who sold his farm in the Norsewood district nearly two years ago, left without a cashbox containing money and other valuables, which he had hidden and forgotten its whereabouts at the time. Mr. Roper was unable to find the box. He thought it must have been stolen, and reported liis loss to the police, who, however, were never able to find any trace of it. A few days ago the present occupier of the farm, when trimming an overgrown hedge, came across an old rusty milk-can well under the hedge. As he rolled it the cashbox fell out, and the finder handed it over intact to the police, who opened it in Napier today. They found more cash in the box than was originally reported missing. The box contained 33 sovereigns, 16 half-sovereigns, 31 ono pound notes, three five-pound notes and one crown, a gold nugget, three gold rings and valuable private papers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 404, 12 July 1928, Page 13
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173LOST FOR TWO YEARS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 404, 12 July 1928, Page 13
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