POST OFFICE BOBBED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 23

POST OFFICE BOBBED

YOUNG MAN ARRESTED

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening- Post.") AUCKLAND, May 26. The post office at Buakaka, about 20 miles from Whangarci, and a few miles from Waipu, was broken into j early yesterday morning, and the safe, containing: over £60 in cash, was removed. Only by a chance mishap was the money recovered. The post office is an isolated building offi the main road. The outer door was forced open and tho inner door removed. The intruders managed to carry the heavy safe into a waiting car, but they were unable to start the car. At 7.15 in the morning m relief worker passed a car outside the post office, and a man who was in it asked him to go.to Mrs. Alison's house, about 18 chains away, and to send for tho police. Mrs. Alison is the postmistress, and her sou communicated with Constable Leslie, of Waipu. Constable Leslie was quickly on the scene and arrested a young man. Two other men are believed to bo concerned in tho attempted robbery. Pension money for the district totalling over £60 had arrived at the i post office on Wednesday afternoon, and would Lave been paid out yesterday.