Arrest of youths
Three 16-year-old youths who were arrested in Ashburton early yesterday morning appeared at a special sitting of the Children’s Court later in the morning charged with unlawfully taking a-car from Christchurch on Tuesday evening. They were remanded to appear in the Christchurch Children’s Court on April 5. Bail was allowed. A fourth person was located later yesterday after a second vehicle was found just south of the Ashburton River bridge. He was taken to the Christchurch Central Police Station for questioning. Senior-Sergeant A. E. Leadley of the Ashburton, police said that the arrests followed observation of the movement of cars in an Ashburton car sales yard about 2 azn. yesterday. s
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 1
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