THEFT FROM POST OFFICE
SMALL SUM TAKEN FROM'SAFE i» —— ' (FBEBB ASSOCIATION HIBDSAU ) AUCKLAND, August 27, A sum of about £2O was stolen when a safe in the Runciman Post Office was blown open some time between midday ; on Saturday and 8 a.m. today. lii recent years, the same post office has been entered on two previous occasions. Gelignite and a detonator were used to open the safe. The mechanism was damaged, permitting the door to be opened, but no other damage was caused to the rest of the small building. The nearest house to the post office is about quarter of a mile away, while the postmaster lives almost a mile distant.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22800, 28 August 1939, Page 4
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