Find of Gelignite.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43370, 10 September 1908, Page 2

Find of Gelignite.

UNDER A PRIVATE SCHOOL AT PAEROA. We cull the following rather startling paragraph from our Paeroa contemporary . —“ Rather a startling find was made on Friday afternoon under the Choral Hall in Wharf Street, Paeroa, in which building Miss Kenny conducts a private school for young children. The children are in the habit of playing under the school, and while they were so doing on Friday they discovered a package under the floor of the building. Not thinking it could do any harm, they tried to knock it down with an old horseshoe, and eventually succeeded in doing so. When opened, the package, which weighed about five pounds, was found to contain several plugs of gelignite, some caps and some fuse. It was handed over to Constable Henry, who found. that it was wrapped iu an Auckland Star of November of last year, and that over the newspaper was another wrapping on which was a postage date of the same month. Evidently the package had come through the post, and for some reason had been hidden under the hall. It is as well that the gelignite did no; explode when handled by the children, as if it had done so some of the children would undoubtedly have been killed and the buildings in the vicinity would have been destroyed.