The medals were stolen in the post on their way to Dunedin.
Police on both sides of the Tasman are hunting a thief who pinched 12 medals awarded to a Kiwi Anzac who served at Gallipoli.
The medals were taken from a package that had been sent from Melbourne to Dunedin.
They were awarded to Trooper Herbert George Garratt, who served with
the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade. He also served in World War II as a member of the New Zealand Air Force and was a founding member of the Wellington Gallipoli Veterans' Association.
The medals were sent in a padded post bag from a Melbourne post office on February 4. The bag arrived in Dunedin on February 12 but the contents had been tampered with.
It originally contained six medals, six miniature medals, a Gallipoli lapel badge, an RSA badge, a ribbon bar, service records and medal photographs.
