DARING ROBBERY.
SAFE-BLOWERS AT WORK. STRONG-ROOM FORCED OPEN. LARGE SUM MISSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Saturday. There was a daring robbery by expert safe-blowers at the Hydra Bacon Factory, opposite Ponsonby Post Office, last night. The door of a large strongroom was blown off with gelignite and a safe in another part of the office forced open by the same means. From the latter £3O were stolen, but through the strong-room door being wedged the intruders were unable to gain access to a further sum of£Bo.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 7
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86DARING ROBBERY. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 7
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