Big bang for thieves?
Thirty kilograms of sporting gunpowder has been stolen from the former Naval magazine at Cass Bay. A heavily secured bunker has been broken into, but the police say the break-in could have happened any time since May 5. Six skg drums of the powder were taken. The police say that, under pressure, the powder could deliver an 80001 b explosive charge. The gunpowder w’as the property of a Christchurch wholesale firm, Allan G. Mitchell (N.Z.) Ltd. The police would not say how the break-in was done but described the action as “extremely dangerous.”
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Press, 16 May 1978, Page 1
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