ATTEMPT TO STEAL SAFE FAILS
THIEVES DISTURBED ON PREMISES (New Zeaiana Press Association) . NAPIER, December 21. Thieves who broke into two premises in Nelson crescent, Napier, on Wednesday night, were disturbed while m the act of loading an office safe on to a truck. They had ransacked the building and taken a cheque for £l4 and about £8 tn cash.
The premises entered were the office of the Faulknor Construction Company, Ltd., and the factory ana office of Taylor Brothers, dry cleaners and dyers. Mr S. R. Jordan, manager of the Faulknor Construction Company, said that, when employees arrived for work yesterday morning, they found that one of the firm's trucks haa been driven up near the office block and the 6cwt safe was m a position ready to be moved up skids on to the truck. The thieves were apparently disturbed before they could gel the safe aboard the truck.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 12
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