RANK AMATEURS!
OVERDOSE OF GELIGNITE Railway Station Safe Blowsi BUILDING PARTIALLY WRECKED Force Lifts Roof from Joists EXPLOSION HEARD A MILE AWAY Press Association. —Copyright. Dunedin, To-day.—At 3.25 ■ o'clock this morning a terrific explosion awakened the residents of Abbotsford anil was heard at Green Island a mil-: away. At 7 a.m., a railway clerk coming from Dunedin found the Abbotsfv.rd station partially wrecked, the safe blown and about £3B missing.
The force of the explosion was such that it wrecked many office furnishings, and lifting Hie roof several inches from its joists. The gelignite used was obtained from the Jubilee coal mine at Fairfield, where two magazines were rifled of 42 plugs and ( J 0 detonators.
It is assumed the operators were rank amateurs, for six plugs were used on the safe.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 223, 19 April 1933, Page 5
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