Danger not realised

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 1

Danger not realised

(HI. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Mar. 29. While searching under her house, into which she had moved recently, for a missing cat today, a Mangere housewife found a strange cardboard box. She opened it — and found a dozen sticks of gelignite, detonators and fuse. Then was enough to blow her house and some neighbours’ homes to pieces. She lifted the box into the car and, taking her children with her, drove several miles to the Onehunga police station. Placing the package on the counter, shetold Constable P. Stanton there was something in the box the police “aright be interested in.” Later, the constable said: “She was worried, but not nearly as worried as me when I realised what was inside. I was horrified at the way the woman brought the stuff in, she obviously didn’t realise the danger.” ne immeuiaieiy unM tne box outside again and it was left In a yard under guard until explosive exports from the Internal Affairs Department took the gelignite away. The gelignite had begun weeping or deteriorating—a state which would make M even more dangerous.