CARS DESTROYED.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 5

CARS DESTROYED.

MYSTERIOUS FIRES NEAR AUCKLAND. [THE PRESS 8pecl»l Service.] AUCKLAND, November 25. Two more cars have been added to the already long list of abandoned and burned machines which have been reported recently. There is a good deal of mystery about the discovery of the vehicles, which were both found blazing by Captain G. J. Bradley, of the Papatoetoe Fire Brigade, at Panmure late on Saturday night. Only the charred framework remains. Both fires broke out between eleven o'clock and midnight. Captain Bradley was motoring along the Panmure-Kohimarama road towards Kohi, when he found the first car in flames opposite the spot where Elsie Walker was found dead. It was a fiveseater touring model belonging to Mr E. Robinson, of Park road. Mr Bradley strove hard to put the fire out, but in the end all that he could do was to let it burn. About 25 minutes later, Mr Bradley was on the way back from Kohi, driving along the same road. Across the paddocks to the westward, he saw a reflection in the sky. Driving round the Auckland side of Mount Wellington he found a three seater car with flames leaping from all parts. Again he was helpless and could only watch it blaze. The car had been driven about a mile from the main road in a deserted district. A strange feature of the fires i 3 the fact that nobody was seen anywhere near the ears. Mr Bradley says that when he came upon the first blazing car there was not a soul in sight. The three-seater car must have caught fire only a few minutes before he saw it, but" when he arrived nobody was about.