£250,000 IN GOLD
WELLINGTON CONSIGNMENT j FIFTY CASES FROM SYDNEY ; Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Fifty boxes, containing £250,000 in gold coin, comprised the most valuable portion of the cargo unloaded from the steamer Maunganui soon after the vessel’s arrival at Wellington from Sydney today. The shipment was consigned to the Bank of New South Wales. The boxes, which tvere heavily constructed, and about the size of a 51b box of tea, were carried down a gangway from the forward portion of the ship and loaded on to a motor-lorry, over which two members of the police force kept guard.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 1
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