HEAVY SAFE STOLEN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1929, Page 4

HEAVY SAFE STOLEN

AUDACIOUS EOBBERY

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

- : : AUCKLAND, This Day. An audacious robbery was carried Jut on Friday night, when thieves broke into the grocery shop of Mr. W. J. "Wilson, 108, Union street, in the cityj and carried away a safe weighing two hundred-weight' and a half. The shop, of the lock-up ■ type, is situated at the lower end .of Union street. When Mr. Wilson arrived there early on Saturday morning he found the lock of tho front door had been' forecd off. The woodwork near the lo~ek was badly splintered by a jemmy or other iron instrument, the marks-of which were plainly visible. A bag of sugar, placed in a box, had been jnoved against the door from the inside of the shop to keep it closed. The sa,fc was in.a storeroom at the rear of the shop nnder some shelves. On walking into the storeroom Mr. Wilson was surprised to find that the safe,--which was three feet high and two feet six inches wide, and weighed two.hundredrweight and a half, had vanished.

The back door, made of iron and heavily barred, had been opened from tha inside. The door is sixteen feet up from a vacant section behind the shop. _ To carry the heavy safe down the flight of stairs was not an easy task for the thieves, who, no doubt, had a motor-ear or cart in. Union lane at the rear of the shop, in which to take the safe away. "It would take at least two men to move the safe," said Mr. Wilson. "'What the thieves will say whetf they, cart" it miles away and blow it open only to find that it contains; nothing more than a few insurance jpapers, I can only imagine " he added. "Fortunately I aid not place1- yesterday's takings, which were considerable, in the safe; I took them home." "■--

The grocer said £6 worth of cigarettes.and tobacco had been stolen from th.ocsb.elxES-.:ui~the -shop. . - '.-.'._