BURGLARIES AT AUCKLAND.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 72, 17 March 1914, Page 6

BURGLARIES AT AUCKLAND.

SAFES DYNAMITED. AUCKLAND, March 13. Between the closing hours of last n'ght and ;even o'clock this morning Trenwith Bros.' boot and shoe factory and R. "Watson and Co.'s "Lion" boot factory in Wakefield Street, were burglariously entered. In both premises the safes were blown open and from Trenwith's safe the sum of £4 was stolen. When the employees of the factories arrived this morning it was found that the front doors of both premises were forced and that the safes had been nearly almost completely wrecked, evidently bv the use of a powerful explosive. Heaps of packing and other material showed that precaut:ons had been taken io deaden the sound of the explosion, but the charge in each case had been made sufficiently strong to prevent any chance of failure.