POST OFFICE ROBBED
WHATAWHATA BURGLARY EXPLOSIVES USED ON SAFE THEFT OF' PENSION MONEY [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Friday The third safe robbery in the Waikato within a few weeks occurred early this morning at Whatawliata, seven . miles west of Hamilton, when the Whatawhata post office was entered and the safe was removed to the backyard. Explosives wore used to force the sale open. The contents, about £4O. were stolen.
About throo years ago the Whatawhata post office was entered and a large sum of money was taken. /
A few weeks ago a safe robbery occurred at the Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company's store at Frankton, while on Tuesday a dairy company's office Kafe was opened at Taupiri and the contents stolen. The Whatawhata post office is a «mall building, yi a central position in the township. There are no other buildings near it. The postmistress, Miss R. Clark, received £35 from the chief post office, Hamilton, yesterday for distribution to pensioners to-day. The m?ney was placed in the safe and everything was in order when Misa Clark left the office last evening. A passer-by early this morning noticed that the back door of the office was open. Re informed Miss Clark, who advised the acting-chief postmaster at Hamilton, Mr. G. Clark, and the police. Detective A. J. White and Constable G. F. McKenzie, .of Hamilton, went to Whatawhata early this morning. It was found that entry to the office had been made by breaking a pane of glass in One of the back windows and opening the window. The safe, a heavy one, had been carried outside. Mats and mail bags were used to deaden tho sound of the explosion, which wrecked the door of the safe.
Mr. W. Simpson, who lives at the back of his store 40yds. away, heard the sound of an explosion at an early hour in tjie morning, but thought it was a motor-car back-firing. Several other residents heard the explosion, and fixed the hour at 4 a.m. Nothing but the contents of the safe had been removed.
A fresh lot of pension money was received from Hamilton this morning and was paid out to-day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21966, 24 November 1934, Page 12
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