BURGLAR’S £2O HAUL
POST OFFICE SAFE GELTtiNITE EM PLOYED (Per PreSs Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The sum of about £2O was stolen when a safe in Runciman Post Office was blown open some time between midday on Saturday and 8 a.m. on Sunday. In recent years the same post office has been entered on two previous occasions.. Gelignite land a detonator were used to open the safe. The mechanism was damaged permitting the door to be opened, but no other damage was caused to the remainder of the small building. The nearest house to the post office is about a quarter of a mile away, while the postmaster lives almost a mile distant.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 14
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113BURGLAR’S £20 HAUL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 14
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