PAY-ROLL STOLEN
£4OO TAKEN FROM BUSH LOCOMOTIVE
WAGES FOR SAWMILLERS Press Association INVERCARGILL, Sunday. A sensational robbery is reported from the Riverton district. Early yesterday morning a sum of over £4OO, representing wages for sawmill hands, was stolen from a locomotive which is attached to Moore’s sawmill, in the Longwoods district, and in which the pay-roll was being carried from a Riverton bank to the mill. It is understood that the locomotive, which was in the charge of a driver and fireman, left Riverton as usual early yesterday morning with wages for the sawmill hands. The mill is about 15 miles from Riverton, in dense bush country. When about a mile and ahalf from the mill, the locomotive was stopped to load some gravel, necessitating the temporary vacation of the engine by the fireman and driver. It is alleged that here the bag containing the money was missed. The Longwood district is a wellknown sawmilling country, in which several mills are operating. Moore’s mill is an old-established one, and the pay-roll has been conveyed on a locomotive for upward of 20 years without mishap.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 899, 17 February 1930, Page 14
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184PAY-ROLL STOLEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 899, 17 February 1930, Page 14
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