MISSING CARS.
THEFT AT OPOTIKI. MEN OBSERVED LOITERING. (By TelesraDh. —Own Correspondent.) OPOTIKI, this day. An audacious car theft occurred in Church Street yesterday afternoon, when a car owned by Mx. Chas. Butterworth was stolen. Mr. Butterworth had filled up the car with benzine, and left it at the side of the kerb while he went down the street. Shortly before the theft two men were observed by the occupant of a shop nearby, and Tatsr, when informed by the police of the theft of the car, he was able to state the men loitering about in a suspicious manner were probably responsible.
A missing Rotorua car was found abandoned yesterday between Taneatua and Opotiki. The police placed a gallon tin of benzine in this car with the intention of driving to Whakatane. During their absence the men who had been seen driving Mr. Butterworth's car towards Whakatane apparently stopped and removed the benzine from the abandoned car.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 11
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