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Find On A Hillside Durban, April 27. Rambling on the hillside on Easter Monday, Mr Steve Wake-ling, of Durban, who has been spending a holiday in Van Reenen, Natlal, picked up a stone to throw along the track for his companion, an Aberdeen terrier, to retrieve anjdi was- amazed to find a gleaming Victoria sovereign dated 1871.
Several years ago a, young railwayman unearthed two coins of the same date on the same hill under practically the same c’rcumstances. Interest has been aroused by Mr Wakeling’s find. There is a strong belief that ’a quantity of gold stolen from a post cart journeying between the Transvaal and Natal lies concealed in various portions of the hills outside the village. At intervals.' optimists dig assiduously in the hope of striking the right spot.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 253, 10 June 1937, Page 3
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134BURIED TREASURE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 253, 10 June 1937, Page 3
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