Salaries Stolen
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From Our Own Correspondent
Nukualofa, June 1.
THE monthly salaries of public servants on the island of Eua, a sum of about £24, was stolen while it was being taken to Eua in a registered mail package by the cutter “Vaigana’, which did not reach its destination until four days after leaving Nukualofa, although the passage takes only a day normally.
Apparently the cutter touched on various villages on the eastern coast of Togatabu before finally making the cross ing to Eua, whose district officer, who is responsible for receiving the money at that end, found the package missing when he opened the mail bag, when the vessel arrived.
The police promptly traced some of the missing Treasury notes to some of the Nukualofa stores, but unfortunately the customer or customers who passed them are still unidentified.
Mr. A. L. Lewis, airport manager for Pan American Airways at Auckland, N.Z., has been transferred to Manila in the Philippine Islands.