A DARING BURGLARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1922, Page 5

A DARING BURGLARY.

AUCKLAND BREWERY ENTERED. RICH HAUL MADE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A daring burglar} was perpetrated at the offices of the Lion Brewery, Khyber Pass Road, late on Thursday night or early this morning, a large sum of money being taken. The offices are separated from the main building by a roadway, and a door from the offices opens into a yard. Entrance was effected through the back door, which is sheltered by a porch. Inside the porch is a double door, which at night is locked on the inside and protected by a strong wooden bar. A square hole was cut in the panel of the door with an augur so as to allow a man to reach through and unlock the door and remove the wooden bar. The burglary was well planned as, owing to the day being a bank holiday, cash to pay the wages of the brewery staff was drawn from the bank on Thursday and lodged in the safe in the strongroom of the offices. Both strongroom and safe doors were opened by means of keys. Most of the cash which was locked in cash boxes was taken, one small box being overlooked. The locks of the cash boxes were forced after they had been taken from the strongroom. Exact information regarding the amount taken is not available, but it is understood it exceeds £5OO. The burglar or burglars must have worked both silently and expeditiously, as four men were working in the brewery only a short distance from the offices.