POST OFFICE BURGLED.
SAFE BLOWN UP.
SENSATION AT LAKE COLERIDGE; The camp at the intake to the Lake Coleridge electric supply works ■ waa given some excitement this morning, when it was discovered that the post office had been entered and the safe blown open. The post office, which is officially registered as * l Whakamatau," is a small wooden shack surrounded Jp-\ other whares, and it would riot be dmTcult to enter. The fact that the explosion damaged the building suggests that the blowing open of the lock was not the work of experts in the gentle art of burglaiy. The proficient burglar contrives to muffle the sound, this explosion must have been heard by those in all the surrounding whares. No information has been received by the Chief Postmaster as to the amount stolen, but he is going to Lake Cole*ridge to-morrow to investigate.
Two detectives left for the Lake this morning, and as the community is not a large one, it is thought that there will not be any great difficulty in tracing the perpetrators.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 55, 11 April 1914, Page 11
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