ROBBERY AT OHAU.
POST OFFICE BROKEN INTO. £l3B MISSING. INVERCARGILL, July 13. On arriving at the Ohau Post Office at 6.30 o’clock this morning to sort the mail, the Postmaster, Mr. V. Robertshaw, discovered that a robbery had Occurred, inside. The glass panel of the door had been smashed above the latch and an entry effected in this manner. The safe, which showed no evidence of having been tampered with, was standing open and approximately £l3B in cash was missing. In another safe, which was also locked, was a sum of £75, but this money was not touched. No postal orders or registered mail were tampered with. A child going to school discovered a cash box which had contained money lying open some 300 yards from the scene of the robbery and handed it to Constable White, of Nightcaps.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 July 1931, Page 5
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139ROBBERY AT OHAU. Wairarapa Age, 14 July 1931, Page 5
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