SAFE BLOWN OPEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23124, 24 August 1938, Page 12

SAFE BLOWN OPEN

POST OFFICE ROBBERY £SO AND STAMPS STOLEN DISCOVERY AT ALBANY About £SO in notes and silver and several pounds worth of postage stamps were stolen by burglars who entered the Albany Post Office at an early hour yesterday morning and blew open the safe with gelignite. The thieves are believed to have gained entry by forcing a window at the back of the building. Discovered when the telephone attendant came on duty at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, the robbery was evidently the work of skilled safeblowers, the door of the safe being cleanly blown off. The fact that the safe was kept in a soundproof room 4ft. square had the effect of deadening the sound of the explosion. At 1.30 yesterday morning a resident who lives near by heard a muffled sound, presumed to have been caused by the firing of a charge plugged in the keyhole of the safe.

Immediately the attendant discovered the traces of the robbery yesterday morning he informed the police and detectives were sent to Albany.

CHRISTCHURCH BURGLARY

£l5O WORTH' OF TYRES USE OF MOTOR VEHICLE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday

Using a motor vehicle in which to carry away the goods, thieves broke into the tyre store of A. S. Paterson and Company, on Moorhouse Avenue, some time last evening, and removed about £l5O worth of tyres and tubes. Entrance to the block on which the building is situatel was gained through a gate opening off the railway sidings, after which the thieves entered through a trap door in the main door.