BOMB SCARE AT SHOW
(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, May 28. Several hundred people were cleared from the main hall at the Waikato Winter Show at Claudelands last night after an anonymous telephone caller told the police that a bomb had been placed there.
The call was made only a few minutes after Sir Robert Menzies and Dame Pattie Menzies had left the building for the hotel where they were spending the night The police said the anonymous caller said a bomb which would explode at 10 p.m. was planted in the dairy produce section of the hall, next to where the former Australian Prime Minister and his wife had been sitting. The police searched the building but found no bomb. A police official said that the call had been traced to a
public telephone booth at the show.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31381, 29 May 1967, Page 1
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