POST OFFICE BURGLARY
THIEVES REMOVE SAFE [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TE PUKE. Friday The Paengaroa post office was broken into in the early hours of tliis morning, the safe, containing about £4 in cash, being stolen. Postal notes, money orders and stamps also were removed. Entry was made by forcing the doors with a crowbar, although attemps had also been made on the windows. The padlocks of benzine pumps near by were broken, but no petrol is missing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23542, 30 December 1939, Page 6
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