RAILWAY SAFE BROKEN OPEN
MONEY FOR EMPLOYEES'. .WAGES STOLEN-' ... .. , -
■ By Telegraph-Press .Association;'_.: Auckland, rNovember'2. K safe in the railway goods shed at Auckland was broken -open K-<*£<*-sives during the night, , and ■ between <£2no and X3OO in cash removed. . , The nightwatchman heard an.cxplos.lon in the shed and raised-the alarm. When he returned with several others.. the burglars had decamped. The safe was a large one, embedded' m.reinforced concrete; and contained -.money for paying he employees to-day Gel gn.te.had been mouUW anto the keyhq? and fired .with a detonator and-fuse. An. entrance was effected, to'tho shod. by. forcing, tha backdoor.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 34, 3 November 1917, Page 6
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