Hotel manager robbed of $8000
PA Wellington Lower Hutt detectives are still looking for two masked men who escaped with $BOOO in cash after forcing the acting manager of the Taita Hotel to open the hotel's safe at gunpoint just before 2 a.m. on Saturday.
Mr Alan Mason was in bed when the men burst into his room above the hotel office.
Senior-Sergeant P. R. Nickalls, of the Lower Hutt C. 1.8., said that one of the men was carrying a gun and the other had a baseball bat. They wore overalls with balaclavas covering almost all their faces, and neither spoke throughout the robbery.
Mr Mason was forced from his bed and motioned out of his room and down the stairs to the office. He was forced to open the office and then the door to the safe, said Senior-Sergeant Nickalls.
"Mr Mason was pushed into one corner while they removed the cash from the safe. He was then taken to an adjoining room, where he was forced down and bound with tape."
Mr Mason was able to free himself in a few minutes after the men left, and telephoned the police.
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