STATION DYNAMITED
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION £3B MISSING FROM SAFE (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. At 3.25 o’clock this morning a terrific explosion awakened the residents of Abbotsford, and was heard at Green Island, a mile away. At 7 o’clock a railway clerk coming from Dunedin found that'tho Abbotsford station had been partially wrecked, the safe blown open, and about £3B was missing.
The force of the explosion was such that it. wrecked many of the office furnishings, lifting tho roof several inches from the joists. Gelignite had been used, having been obtained from the Jubilee coal mine at Fairfield, where two magazines were rilled of 42 plugs and 90 detonators. It is assumed that the operators were rank amateurs, for six plugs were used on the safe.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 19 April 1933, Page 8
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