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The Great New Zealand Robbery

How gangsters pulled off our most audacious robbery
by Scott Bainbridge
🏢 Allen & Unwin 📅 2017-07-26 📄 320 pages
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them. The crime was eventually pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash. When four years later, Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero. But to this day uncertainty remains about whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he really-cunning as he was-have pulled it off all by himself? And what happened to the money?
ISBN-13: 9781760638900
ISBN-10: 1760638900
ASIN: 1760638900
Scott Bainbridge
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Scott Bainbridge is the author of The Great New Zealand Robbery. Their work spans true crime.
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