EXPLOSIVES USED

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1932, Page 5

EXPLOSIVES USED

ON BUILDING IN CHRISTCHURCH. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE RESULTS. (Per Press AssociaHon — Copyright ) ' CHRISTCHURCH, September 26. A daring attempt to blow up the premises of the Milk Coupon Company, in Malcolm Street, was made at midnight last night. The noise awakdned nearby, residents who dashed out and saw two men riding off on a motor cycle. ' The lock had been filed off the front door, holes were blown in the ceiling, windows were broken, and milk drums were damaged .by the force of the explosion. The two men were seen speeding away by J. - Hartigan, whose dwelling adjoins the dairy. He hurried out on hearing the explosion, and was shortly afterwards joined by a constable who had also heard the report and hurried to Mnldon Street.

H, Fenton, an employee of the company, heard the explosion, although hir house is fully 300 yards from the dairy and many others living within a quarter of a mile were also awakened.

At the dairy it was found that the lock had been filed off the side door. It is believed that the explosive substance used was gelignite. The force of the explosion was fshown by the fact that several holes were blcwn in the Veiling, and a number of bottles were, broken, milk drums were damaged r.nd overturned, thq milk in seme cases being lost, windoVs were broken, and parts of a -separator 1 were damaged. The explosive had been placed in a galvanised iron pipe socket. A Director of the company says chat sometime previously two trucks belonging to the company were tipped into the river, and he believed thui, the explosion was the result of hostility due to price cutting in milk.