19 Dec 2013

Package at IRD office was $2 coin

10:23 am on 19 December 2013

A suspicious package at the Inland Revenue building in Lower Hutt has turned out to be a $2 coin wrapped in bubble wrap.

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Photo: RNZ

Police were called to the building at about 7.30am on Thursday.

The building was evacuated while the package was scanned with an X-ray.

But police now say there is no cause for concern and people have been allowed back in the building.