PURLOINING COMPANY
Two men drove a truck into Twigger street yesterday afternoon and parked it outside the main entrance to the New Zealand Industries Fair. They paid to get into the fair, walked over to a stack of guttering and spouting, and put it over the fence on to the footpath. They then left the fair grounds, loaded the spouting and guttering on the truck and drove off.
The materials taken were the property of the industries fair company. The secretary-manager of the fair (Mr R. T. Alston) was told of the incident just in time to get a glimpse of the truck disappearing into Lincoln road.
Ten minutes later, two joiners were instructed to go to the fair storeroom. They found a man sawing timber there into sft lengths. They thought he
was another workman employed at the fair. The man gathered as much of the sawn timber into his arms as he could and walked away. The carpenters called out, “Hey! What are you up to?” The man dropped the timber and left the fair at great speed. “We are just wondering if the spouting men and the sawing man belong to the same purloining company,” Mr Alston commented last evening.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31143, 20 August 1966, Page 1
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