RESIDENCE RAIDED.
SUSPECTED COUNTERFEIT COINING. MOULDS AND COINS FOUND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The police to-night, armed with a search warrant, visited the residence in Grey Street of Thomas Nelson Mellors, aged about 35, suspected of being connected with the recent circulation of counterfeit coins. Mellors, who occupied a portion of an apartment house in Grey Street, is stated to have been discovered in the act of making coins, and was arrested. About fifty counterfeit half-crowns and florins, and five moulds for making these coin* and shillings, together with constituent coins were discovered on the premises, which Mellors has occupied for about six months.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 5
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106RESIDENCE RAIDED. Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 5
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