POST OFFICE BURGLARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 4

POST OFFICE BURGLARY.

I ; A MAITOREWA SENSATION. J j EXPLOSIVES USED BUT FAIL. There xvas a rather sensational burglary at Manurewa last night, thiex-es! gaining entry to the post office and attempting to blow open the safe, i Investigations this morning showed that entrance had been effected by | breaking a windoxr and releasing the j catch. The explosive used w„ insufficient to force the safe, and toerely , I deranged the mechanism, so that the ; door was jammed and could not be ! opened. The xvindoxv immediately above | the safe was shattered by the explosion. The burglary was discovered about j I 6 o'clock this morning, when a passer-! •by found the door of the post office open and the window thrown up. Residents in the neighbourhood report having heard a loud noise in the early I hours of the morning. Little notice was taken of this, however, as several attempts to start the engine of a car hud also been heard, and it xvas imagined j that some motorist had stopped to effect I repairs. I The postmaster, Mr. F. B. Hyde.! 'states that he left the building at § | o'clock last evening, when everything: i xvas in order and the premises securely I fastened. I