Blasts investigated
PA Nelson The police have had a good response from people giving information about two explosions which wrecked a car in Nelson and two telephone boxes in Richmond on Monday night. Detective Sergeant George Dawson said yesterday that D.S.I.R. scientists from Christchurch were helping the police to determine the cause of the explosions, but no results were expected for two or three
days. There was no clear indication of what the telephone box explosive was, but it could have been a tuna bomb. “It is unfortunate that some of these things get in the hands of fools,” he said. “In a confined space they give quite a jolt.” Detective Sergeant Dawson said an explosive might not have been the cause of the burnt-out Ministry of Works car.
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