SAFE DYNAMITERS.
OPERATIONS IN AUCKLAND. TWO "BREAKS" THIS WEEK. Within the past three months there have been at least four burglaries which have been characterised by the blowing open of office safes with gelignite charges. The safe in the office of Parkinson Bros., monumental masons, in Victoria Street, was the first to be attacked, and a week or two back the safe in the Glenafton Collieries office, in Eden Terrace, was shattered, but in neither case did the operators get much for their trouble. As a. matter of fact, the explosion in the later case attracted the attention of residents, and the burglars had to make a hurried exit to escape capture. Two more safes suffered damage agam this week. That at the office of the New Zealand Bacon Factory, in Stanley Street, was blown open on Tuesday night, and on Thursday night the safe in the office of Kelly and Rattray's boot factory in Belgium Street, was shattered. At neither place did the burglars make any haul worth while.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 299, 15 December 1923, Page 7
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