MOTOR THIEVES BUSY AT CHRISTCHURCH
FOUR VEHICLES STOLEN SINCE WEEK-END Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, July 26. Four motor vehicles have, been stolen in. Christchurch since Saturday morning —three cars and a motor-cycle. No small amount of ingenuity was displayed by the person who drove away Mr. A. A. Johnson’s car from outside the Masonic Hall, Gloucester Street, between 8 o’clock and 9 o’clock last night. Mr. Johnson left his car with the gears locked, and to-day the cur was found standing at the corner of Woodbridge Street and Thorrington Street, near Cashmere Hills. The gears had been relocked, tools and patching useful for a motor-cyclist, wore removed from the tool-box. and petrol had been drained from the 4nnk. Mr. A. L. Gray’s car was stolen a night or two ago from outside Duff’s store, on Cashmere Hills, and found at the foot of the hills. In this instance six gallons of petrol had been drained from the tank.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 255, 27 July 1927, Page 10
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