Vehicle Sought After Robbery

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 30

Vehicle Sought After Robbery

(N Z Press Association) BLENHEIM, April 17.

Detectives inquiring into the theft from the Blenheim Post Office Savings Bank at the week • end of $50,971 are anxious to speak to the occupants of a station waggon which was seen in the Post Office yard on Monday.

The police have spread the search for the vehicle particularly to the Nelson district. They are looking for a roughly-painted ligjit blue

Holden station waggon of rectangular opening through about 1957 vintage The car the double-walled steel door has been seen by various large enough for a man to neonle at the week-end. crawl through without upsetP Detective Sergeant A. W. ting the burglar alarm on the Hedwic of Nelson, who is door lock. in charge of the inquiries. They broke open a set of said today that all who had four wooden lockers containseen the car were struck by ing money, and a set of four rmirfi naintwork steel lockers containing cash, ‘ it was generally described but left untouched steel cabias a “backed paint job, ’’and nets which did not contain one person said it was painted cash- inclrnr “with a cowshed broom. Only one wooden locker The car was seen also at Pic- was overlooked and this was ton duriJig the week-end and not part of the set broken on the Picton-Havelock high- open, but one which was inwav between Moenui and stalled later at ground level Linkwater in a corner of the strongroom The police remain silent It has been suggested that about anv theories they have anyone not in the know would formed about the robbery, the have broken open the steel highest in New Zealand. cabinets as the more likely The thieves expertly cut a places for money to be stored,

and not the wooden lockers. The steel cabinets held about $20,000 in stamps, postal notes, and money orders, all not readily convertible. The unopened cash locker contained in excess of $3OOO. Apart from the hole in the safe door and a boarded-up rear window, the savings bank was back in business as usual today. The police took away for closer study part of the window on which they found some clearly identifiable fingerprints.