BURGLARS IN POST OFFICE.
£2OO STOLEN. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 30. In the early hours of, this morning the post office and store at Waddington were entered by burglars and money to the amount of £2OO was stolen. Not much information is at present available, but it is known that the money was in notes and cheques. The store is owned by E. E. Booth,' who also conducts the post office. Apparently the crime was comjnitted about half-past four in the morning, as the alarm clock, which was set for. that time, had just gone off when the occupiers, who were awakened, heard suspicious movements in the stoi’e. When an investigation was made it was found that the money was missing, Put it was too dark to see far outside, and nobody could be detected in the gloom. The alarm clock apparently frightened the intruder, otherwise possibly a much bigger .haul would'have been made.
Waddington is a small township about 38 miles from Sheffield, on the Midland line.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 October 1924, Page 5
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