POST OFFICE ROBBED

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3237, 24 November 1934, Page 5

POST OFFICE ROBBED

BUBGLAZfIr AT WHATAWHATA The third safe robbery in the Waikato within a few weeks occurred early yesterday morning at Whatawhata, seven miles west of Hamilton, when the Whatawhata post office was entered and the safe,was removed to the backyard. Explosives were used to force the safe open. The contents, about S4Q, were stolen. Detective A. J. White and Constable G. F.. McKcnzie, of Hamilton, went to Whatawhata early yesterday morning. fjbund that entry, to the office by breaking a pane of" olass in one of the back windows and' opening the window. The safe, a heavy one, had been carried outside. Mats and mail bags were used to deaden the sound of the explosion, which wrecked the door of the safe. Mr W. Simpson, who lives at the-ba-ck of his store 40yds away, heard th? sound-of an explosion at an earlv hour in -the morning, but thought It was a motor-car back>firing. : . Several other residents heard the explosion,. and fixed the hour at 4 a.m. Nothing but the contents of the safe had been removed.