PARTIALLY WRECKED
ABBOTSFORD RAILWAY STATION SAFE BLOWN OPEN & RIFLED (Per Press Association) DUNEDIN, Last Night. At 3.25 o’clock this morning a terrific explosion awakened the residents of Abbotsford. It was heard at Greeu Island, a mile away. At 7 a.m. a railway clerk coming from Dunedin found tho Abbotsford railway station partially wrecked, the safe blown, and about £3B missing. The force of the explosion was such that it wrecked many of the office furnishings, and lifted tho roof several inches from the joists. Tho gelignite used was obtained from the Jubilee coal mine at Fairfield where two magazines were rifled of 42 plugs and 90 detonators. It is assumed that the operations were the work of rank amateurs, for six plugs were used on the safe. \ , :
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 20 April 1933, Page 5
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