BURGLARIES IN AUCKLAND
SAFES BLOWN OPEN. ' Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 13. Between the closing hour last night »nd 7 o’clock this morning, Trenwith Bros.’ boot and shoo factory and 11. "Walton and Co.’s “Lion’’ boot factory, in Wakefield street, were burglariously entered. In both premises the safes were blown open, and from Trenwith’s tho sum of £4 was stolen. When "the employees of the factories arrived this morning it was found that the front doors of both premises had been forced, and the safes had been nearly almost complefely wrecked, evidently by tho use of a powerful explosive. Heaps of packing and other material showed that precautions had been taken to deaden tho sound of the explosion, but tho charge in each case had been mado sufficiently strong to prevent any chance of failure.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 5
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