SAFE BLOWN OPEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22613, 29 December 1936, Page 6

SAFE BLOWN OPEN

COUNTRY POST OFFICE THIEVES STEAL £3O IN CASH [from our own correspondent] TE AWAMUTU, Monday Thieves blew open a sale and stole £3O early this morning from the general store and post office at Te Kawa, south of Te Awamutu. Tho premises are owned by Te Kawa Stores, Limited. The money was taken from the post office safe and several articles of clothing and some tinned meat were stolon from the stock in the store. Keys removed from the post, office safe were used to open the store safe, but the contents of this consisted principally of cheques, which were not removed. When tho manager, Mr. T. H. Wilson, arrived at the store this morning he found the lock of the front door forced and the door ajar. The office was in a state of disorder. Blankets, taken from tho stock, had been used to deaden the noise of the explosion and were scattered about tho floor, lhe safe was badly damaged. A neighbour heard two muffled explosions within a few minutes of each other shortly after one o'clock * this morning. Tho noise, however, was so indistinct that he did not got up to investigate. Constable P. Watts, of Hamilton, and Constable Shaw, of Kihikihi, visited the store to-day to make inquiries.