Drive-in burglary
PA Wellington In a bid to obtain liquor, a car was driven at the wall of a bottle store, making a hole large enough to climb through, the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington has been told. Wirepa Te Kuru Tawhai, aged 18, an assembler, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary and was remanded by Mr W. M. Willis, S.M., to January 29 for a report and sentence. Sergeant F. Wood said that at 12.25 a.m. on De-
cember 14 Tawhai and an associate had been sitting outside the Cannons Creek Tavern bottle store in Tawhai’s car. The car had been driven at the wall the bottle store, making a hole big enough for Tawhai to climb through. Tawhai had removed three bottles of rum from the store. He had been climbing out of the hole in the wall when a police patrol arrived. He had run off, but had been caught.
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