Phone box blown up
A telephone box at the corner of Curries Road and Port Hills Road in Heathcote was blown to pieces about II p.m. last evening. Thr o fire engines attended but they were not needed. A spokesman for the police said that a squad called to the scene arrived
to find that there was no telephone box where one should have been. A bystander said that he could believe he was in Northern Ireland. “The box was blown to smithereens,” he said. The police were still investigating the cause of the explosion late last evening.
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