CRACKSMEN AT WORK.
POST OFFICE SAFE FOUND IN ROAD. Auckland, Last Night. The Post Office at Royal Oak, Onehunga, was broken into last night, and the office safe, weighing 3 cwts was removed. The first intimation of the affair was the discovery of the safe by Mr. Vivian Potter at 6 o’clock this morning, half a mile along the Mount Albert road. At 7.30 a.m. a garage proprietor found that 14cwt. welding plant bad been removed from bis premises, and this was found at the post office, where the burglars had apparently tried to burn a bole in the safe, but the effort, was abortive, as they had forgotten to take most of the blowpipe tips. The plant had been removed by a hand truck, which was also employed to convey the safe to the spot where Mr. Potter found it. A butcher saw the post office door open, and an investigation showed that a jemmy had been used on this and the inside door. When the safe was returned the contents were found by the post mistress, Miss Florence McCallum, to be intact.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3527, 21 August 1926, Page 3
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184CRACKSMEN AT WORK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3527, 21 August 1926, Page 3
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