Bomb in Aust.

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33741, 14 January 1975, Page 13

Bomb in Aust.

(New Zealand Press Association—Copyright)

MOREE, January 13.

A bomb wrecked the Pastures Protection Board building in Balo Street, Moree, 676 kilometres north of Sydney, early yesterday.

The explosion, which also wrecked two insurance offices in the same building and damaged four nearby shops, was heard throughout Moree.

Police said that the bomb was made from a high explosive which had been packed into a metal container.

It was “sophisticated,” they said.

It was put on the front steps of the building and exploded at 1.40 a.m.

The interior of the building was wrecked and all windows broken by the explosion. The four damaged shops also had their windows broken.

The secretary of the Moree Pastures Protection Board, Mr K. Percy, said last night that he could think of no'

reason why anyone would want to destroy the building. “I do not think our build-; ing was picked out for any particular reason,” he said. “Rather I believe that someone just put the bomb on our doorstep for no other reason than to blow a building up.” It was the second attempt to destroy a Moree building in two days. Early on Friday morning |an attempt was made to burn down a service station: in Moree.

Petrol was poured from the office of the service station in Balo Street to the other side of the road and then set alight.

The front of the service station was slightly damaged by fire and the office was damaged by smoke.