Australia - Guinea - New Zealand

Mar. 03, 1960 - AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLBOYS DISCOVER A 432, 000 HOARD AND TIPPED THEIR PALS.S.4 TO CARRY THEIR BOOKS. Aastralian pollee were very suspicious when they beard that a group of schoolboys were upending large sums of money. The boys, about twenty of them living in the suburb of Sydney, Australia, were said to be handing out tips to other boys who did errands and homework for them. Some were being paid at the rate of.i4 a day to carry the rich boys books. After investigations the police found that the money was part of a £32, 000 hoard discovered by the. boys hidden ika circus wagon in an old tea cheat, The boys had a gentlemen'a agreement to take only a little at a time, but several of them broke the agreement and took as muc as £600 at a time The Australian police are trying to discover who the money belonge to, but after contacting the owner of the circus who is now touring New Zealand with his troupe, they found that he knew nothing about it to the probe went on the police began to think lie money was the proceeds of a robbery. Auatralian lawyo, 3 have said that if the owner in not found, the boys mi6iit have a legal claim to the money. PHOTO SHOWS: RICHARD THOMPSON (left) and GRAEAE DAVIS, FareTY.ivarold, are the two boys Who discovered the hoard

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