GELIGNITE STOLEN
USED TO BLOW BANK DISCOVERY AT OPOTIKI (From Our Own Correspondent) OPOTIKI, Tuesday. The discovery was made to-day by some children who went to Hukuwai to see a Moth plane which arrived there this morning, that an explosives magazine belonging to the Farmers’ Trading Company had been broken into and that three boxes of gelignite, weighing 131 b, had been stolen. The door of the magazine had apparently been forced with a crowbar or other implement. It is understood that employees of the company identified the explosive used in a recent attempt to blow up the strongroom of the Bank of New Zealand as the same as that stored in the magazine in the sandhills, because the paper 'on the gelignite had been badly discoloured through water penetrating under the floor of the magazine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 7
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136GELIGNITE STOLEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 7
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