BURGLARS BUSY

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 16 February 1929, Page 5

BURGLARS BUSY

GELIGNITE USED

CPer Press Association) Auckland, Fob. 15

A charge of gelignite which shattered the bolts of the safe, was used by-thieves who broke iijto the office of Grey and Alenzics’ mineral .water factory in Eden eresceEti on "Wednesday night. After the explosion, they were still unable to lever the door open and missed a, haul of £SO by an, eight of an inch.* d About 7 o’clock on Wednesday inoming the attempted robbery was discovered by one of the employees. A charge was put. into tli/t keyhole of the safe, and tho force was so great that it badly warped the door.

“Eve been, expecting it for a long time,” said All - ill. R. Aleiivzies, the manager. “This street is fairly quiet and' isolated, and ip would give thieves >a, good chance. The street is patrolled by policemen,, j think. A window at the back, of the building gave the thieves -entry. It must have been somebody who knew the place, for they would have cut themselves to pieces on the instruments which were on the bench, just inside the window if they had been strangers.”

This is the second time within two weeks that |!iho factory has been entered.