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MAN IN NGAHAURANGA GORGE SAFE AND BURGLARS’ TOOLS FOUND. WELLINGTON OFFICE BROKEN INTO. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. During the early hours of this morning, acting on certain information, a police party went to Ngahauranga Gorge in a police car, followed by further members of the force. At a point where the Public Works Department were tipping spoil they came upon a Barton Ginger van. They arrested a man, Thomas Gordon, 37, a labourer and a taxi driver, on a charge of breaking and entering the Barton Ginger premises in Dixon Street and committing theft and also with unlawfully converting a motor van valued at £260. The police allege that the accused was engaged at the time of his arrest, by a safe, which had been blown open’ shovelling, some material on a fire and by the fire they discovered a large quantity of gelignite, detonators and housebreakers’ instruments. When he saw the police he bolted and was subsequently taken in the bush. He was remanded till June 28.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 8
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173SURPRISED BY POLICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 8
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