SAFE BLOWN OPEN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 6

SAFE BLOWN OPEN.

IN AUCKLAND BANK

(By ftkaraph—Prest Association.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday.

An unsuccessful attempt to rob the safe of the Newmarket branch of the National Bank of New Zealand was made to-night. The cashier and a counter clerk left the building at 5 o"clock, al lbeing secure. The counter clerk returned shortly before 7 o"clock to do some work, and while standing outside the bank, lie heard a loud exr plofeion. Accompanied by a passerby, :he unlocked the door, finding the place full of smoke. An attempt had been made upon the safe. The lock was shattered, the brass fittings being strewn round: the room, as well as a soft substance, evidently used to pack the charge. A piefce of fuse was found in front of the safe.

The police were immediately summoned, but found nothing to indicate how the intruders gained entrance to the bank, the doors and windows being intact.

There is a right-of-way at the back of the building, from which entrance could be effected unobserved by anybody possessing a key. The safe contained £B.

STOLEN BANK NOTE

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.

A man named J. Johnston, while travelling frotm Wellington by train on Wednesday, was robbed of £125, including a £SO note, of which lie knew the nunber, and payment was stopped by the National Bank. On Thursday a man presented the missing £SO note at the bank: i The cashier consulted the manager, j who instructed the cashier to get J change, and meanwhile asked the man presenting the note to take a seat. "Very well," replied the man, "my wife is outside. I'll just bring her in." He left the bank note behind him, and haa not been seen since.