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IMPUDENT WELLINGTON RAID CLAMOUR IN BREAKING LOCKS GOODS WORTH £7O TAKEN. (By T elegrapb —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 11." What seems to have been one of the boldest and noisiest burglaries committeed in Wellington for some time occurred at the foot of Majoribanlcs Street early on Thursday morning. The door of T. G. Liddle’s tobacconist and hairdressing shop was forced open and money and goods to a total value* of about £7.0 were stolen. Those engaged in the crime hammered and wrenched a door so loudly that according to a man living nearby they could at times have been heard a quarter of a mile away. One neighbour thought someone was repairing a motor car and it appears from what neighbours say that two or three men were engaged in the burglary. A jemmy and hacksaw were used to attack a .stout lock and an iron hasp with which the door was secured. According'to the time .a loud report was heard entrance was apparently gained at about 3.30 a.m. The noise was mistaken by one who heard it for a blow out of a motor tyre. It must have occurred when the door finally gave way.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 11 June 1932, Page 9
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201NOISY CITY BURGLARY Hawera Star, Volume LI, 11 June 1932, Page 9
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