THEFT OF GOLD
FROM WEST COAST DREDGING COMPANY ALLEGED AGAINST METALLURGIST. AMOUNT VALUED AT £31,496 IN QUESTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The theft of gold valued at £31,496 was alleged, in the Magistrate’s Court today, against Leo Edward Morland, a metallurgist, aged 41, and he was remanded for a week. The charge was that Morland, on or about October 29, 1940, at Arahura, near Hokitika, being a servant in the employ of the Arahura Gold Dredging Co., Ltd., stole 3,650 ounces of alluvial gold, valued at £31,496, the property of the company. A detective-sergeant asked for the remand, which was granted by the Magistrate, Mi’ J. L. Stout. Morland was not represented by counsel and had nothing to say.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4
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121THEFT OF GOLD Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4
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