HOME-MADE BOMB.
EXPLOSION IN BANK BUILDING. Bj Telegraph —P-ass Aasop* r onu. AUCKLAND, December 23. A sensational discovery was made by an employee of the legal firm or Hisketh, Richmond and Clayton, in the Bank of Australasia building, at the corner of Queen Street and Wyndhainj Street this morning, when ho went to ■work at 9 a.m. In an up-stairs corridor ho saw- something alight in a small basket containing what looked like a parcel. Lifting the burning parcel out, lie put it on tho lead-covci ed stairs, and tried to put the flames out with his handkerchief. Ho ran into a neighbouring lavatory to " ct , sol ?° water, and in tho brief mteivnl Tm heard an explosion outside like a shot from a "tin. When the clerk got back to tho '’corridor there was the smell of gunpowder, and a- lot of smoko about Where the burning basket had stood there was a fair-sized tin with a piece of fuse attached to it. Scattered about were the contents of the tin-nails, holts screws, and some road metal. It -n-.s rather an amateurish sort of bomb, hut a bomb it was. and had anyone been in the corridor he would have pot a nasty smack from some of the flying
No one has the slightest idea as to liok the home-made bomb got into the corridor, or what it was intended to do.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 December 1925, Page 8
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232HOME-MADE BOMB. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 December 1925, Page 8
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