A QUEER JOKE
TAKAKA POLICE STATION EXPLOSION. * \iitftralinn Press Association) NELSON, May 29. In connection with the explosion at the .Takaka Police Station, it. is thought that the affair was a joke.The belief is that a set plug of dynamite was thrown over, the .front-fence on the garden by someone with a queer sense of humour.' Had the dynamite been thrown a tew inches further,, .it would have landed on some concrete; and consequently would have caused serious damage. As it .was, the windows of the station weye shattered, and the building ’ was shaken. It is said that the exp’osion was heard over five miles distant. The police are investigating the matter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 4
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