ROBBERY FROM SAFE
COUNTRY POST OFFICE
ABOUT £138 STOLEN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVESCAEGILL, 13th July
On arriving at the Ohai Post- Office at 6.30 o'clock this morning to sort the mail, the postmaster, Mr.1 V. Kobcrtshaw, discovered that a robbbery had occurred. The glass panel of a door had been smashed above the latch. The safe, which showed no evidence of haying been tampered with, was standing open, and approximately £13S in cash was missing< In another safe, which was also locked, was a sum of £75, but this money was not touched.
No postal orders or registered mail were tampered with.
A child going to school discovered the cashbox which had contained the money lying open some 300 yards from the- scene of, the. robbery, and handed it to Constable White, .of Nightcaps.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 8
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134ROBBERY FROM SAFE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 8
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