SAFE BLOWN OPEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23358, 29 May 1939, Page 8

SAFE BLOWN OPEN

THIEVES TAKE MONEY WAIPUKURAU BURGLARY FARMER ROBBED OF £l6 [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] HASTINGS, Sunday Safeblowers were active in Waipukurau last night or early this morning, and as a result Yates and Company, grocers, lost £lO in cash and £3O in cheques. The thieves gained an entry to the premises by forcing & back door. They moved the safe from the manager s office into the storeroom and, after stacking sacks of wheat, sugar and flour around it, blew open the door. Another loss of money is also reported in the district, this time at Eskdale. At about three o'clock this morning a farmer, Mr. Charles Wigstein, living alone, was aroused by two men seeking benzine for their car. I o invited them inside for a cup of tea and soon after their departure he found that :£l6 was missing from underneath his pillow.

CASE IN OXTY SHOP MONEY TAKEN FROM BOX Thirty shillings in silver was stolen from the showroom of the Mary Elizabeth millinery shop, Queen Street on Friday afternoon. It was evident that the search by the thief was a hasty one, for he overlooked £l3 in notes in a box almost adjoining that containing the money. Evidence of another visit to the same premises on Friday night was found by the occupier, Miss Lesley Harrison, on Saturday morning, but nothing further was missing.

WATCHES STOLEN BURGLARY AT KAIKOHE [BY TELEGRAPH— OWN CORRESPONDENT] KAIKOHE, Sunday The premises of Mr. H. Ingram, jeweller, of Kaikohe, were broken into on Friday night. The thieves obtained entry by smashing a window at the back of the workroom and, after helping themsolves to watches to the value of £lO and the contents of the till, about £l, left by the back door, locking it after them and taking away the key.