STOLEN MAILBAG

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 11

STOLEN MAILBAG

NIGHT EXPRESS MYSTERY TAKEN BETWEEN INVERCARGILL AND DUNEDIN Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Friday. A mailbag containing a quantity of ! registered mail was stolen from the | van of the night express which left | Invercargill at 6.40 p.m. last Sunday. This information was conveyed to the Press late to-night by Air. W. T. Johnston, chief postmaster at Invercargill. Twenty-two bags were plaiced on the van here, and on making a check at Dunedin one was found to be missing. This bag contained mail for Christchurch, Nelson, Blenheim, and all North Island towns with the exception of Wellington and Auckland. The theft was reported to the police here and at Dunedin, and although the railway track has been thoroughly searched, no signs of the missing mail have been discovered. The mail van on the night express is placed between the passenger cars and sleeping cars, and to reach the latter it is necessary for passengers to pass through the van. Thus it would be possible for persons to pass through the van while the guard was attending to his duties in another part of the train. At three stations between here and Dunedin mail is taken in, but none is put off.