AUCKLAND BUEGLARY
(United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Home and Colonial Stores, Newton ■branch, was burglariously entered last night and' the safe removed to the cellar. They packed it with flour in bags and .forced it open with an explosion, using butter from' the store to tamp the charge. It is. estimated that about £l5O was stolen. The burglars broke two cash registers in the shop, apparently with an axe and extracted about £4 of money.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 29 July 1916, Page 5
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77AUCKLAND BUEGLARY Nelson Evening Mail, 29 July 1916, Page 5
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