STARTLING EXPLOSION
RAILWAY STATION PARTIALLY WRECKED SAFE BLOWN UP. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 19. At 3.25 this morning a terrific explosion awakened the residents of Abbotsford and was heard at Green Island, a mile away. At 7 o’clock a railway clerk coming from Dunedin found the Abbotsford station partially wrecked, the safe blown up and about £3B missing. The force of the explosion was such that many office furnishings were wrecked and the roof lifted several inches from the joists. The gelignite used had been obtained from the Jubilee coal mine at Fairfield, where two magazines were rifled of 42 plugs and 90 detonators. It is assumed that the operators were rank amateurs for six plugs were used on the safe.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 6
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