NO CLUE FOUND
THEFT FROM DOMINION MUSEUM. MISSING STAMP COLLECTION, <By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. No further clue has been found to the person or persons who stole the New Zealand stamp collection from the Dominion Museum last week. The director, Dr W. R. B. Oliver, said yesterday that investigations had so far proved fruitless. He said that only one stamp in the collection was of particular value. This was a brown Christchurch Exhibition stamp, valued at £lO. It was one of a special issue, which appeared first in one colour ancKwas afterward recalled and reissued in another colour. Only a single sheet of the brown stamps was put up for sale and speciments were consequently rare and valuable. The main value of the collection, however, was in its complete and representative nature. Museum officers are alarmed by the theft, as they consider that the' use of the service lift indicates that the culprit was someone familiar with the running of the museum. in the meantime, the missing cases have not been replaced, and their absence forms a conspicuous gap in the set of 12 cases arranged on the south wall of the museum.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1939, Page 6
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195NO CLUE FOUND Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1939, Page 6
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