Cracksmen Active

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 3

Cracksmen Active

Oamaru CV Z Press Association) OAMARU, Feb. 7. Safebreakers at the week-end took £2OOO in cash and cheques from Hay’s. Ltd.. Oamaru. Oxy-acetylene equipment stolen from the Pukeuri motor garage, six miles north of Oamaru, three days earlier was used to cut through the safe. The special metal of which the safe was made, designed to repel acetylene torches, failed in its purpose. The safebreakers entered the large store on the main street through a skylight above the men’s lavatories and piled office furniture and carpets around the safe while they worked.

Wellington (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 7. Cash amounting to £lOBl and cheques worth £569 were taken from the main office of the Wakefield Hotel, Cuba street, Wellington, last night. The cash and cheques were removed from a safe which detectives believe was opened with a key. Entry to the hotel was possibly gained through an open window. It is the biggest robbery in Wellington since April last year when £2OOO was stolen from a supermarket safe in Constable street. Newtown. On that occasion a key was stolen from a private . home to open the premises and the safe.