[?]om School-boy

[?]bia Police Pay [?]covered [?]om School-boy

lE mystery of the missing police pay roll (see PIM for April and May) deepened rather than red when the greater part of r as recovered from a 12 years Samoan schoolboy in May. le pay roll of £2,439 in Samoan ency disappeared from Apia on March 28. The Zealand CIB was called in a reward of £250 offered for ■mation which would lead to the ;t of the thief. twever, on March 13 about 0 of the missing money was d in the suitcase of the olboy. He was packing to go 2 for the school holidays and money was discovered by the an relative with whom he lives Apia. She later took the and the money to the Apia e station. e boy said that he found the jy done up in a zippered ic bag used for carrying a ing suit. He had been looking urabs when he found the bag een the saluting guns at mtu Point and the Pilot on. He had taken it home jut telling anyone about it and (quently spent £4. ortly after the theft an ymous note in Samoan had left at the Police Station saying the money was buried ;en the saluting guns and the Station. A search failed to e it—evidently the schoolboy already removed it. iding clue to the mystery is considered to be the bathing n which the notes were found, a bag sold with a well-known 1 of swimming suit. Police are »us to find out where it came and who may have owned it ously.