BURGLARS’ RAID.
ON DUNEDIN STORE. SEVERAL FIRES STARTED. DUNEDIN, Fein 20. A call was received at 5.43 o’clock this morning to Murray Roberts and Coy. ’s buildings in Liverpool Street where it was found that three bales of wool and several sacks of wheat were on fire. The brigade extinguished the blaze, and returned to headquarters, but at 7.19 a.m., another call was received to the same building; where a fire had broken out in, a different part of the stores, near the liquor bond. After the quelling of this outbreak it was discovered that the building had been fired fn four places,-and that, burglars had made a hole in nine-inch wall, and had gained admittance to the bond. The intruders also ripped a large number of sacks, containing corn, doing considerable damage.
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Grey River Argus, 21 February 1927, Page 5
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133BURGLARS’ RAID. Grey River Argus, 21 February 1927, Page 5
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