HUNGRY THIEVES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 216, 9 June 1931, Page 11

HUNGRY THIEVES

Well-provisioned Car

Looted

GOLF CLUBS UNWANTED Thieves who took Mr. C. S. Brice’s car from its parking place in the city late on Friday afternoon were on the look-out apparently for food. They were rewarded with a fairly rich haul, but they took in their zeal quite a number of parcels which contained various other things such as crockery and garments. Mr. Brice explained the circumstances of the theft last evening, and said that everything that was taken might have looked like food. Two brand-new golf clubs, belonging to a friend, were left in the car. Mr. Brice parked the car outside his firm’s premises in Victoria Street at 4.55 p.m. He had been watched, evidently, because when he returned a quarter of an hour later the car was gone. Late at night it was found by the police outside the skating rink at the Winter Show building. When recovered by Mr. Brice the car was quite undamaged and had been driven only a mile or two. Provisions had been laid in by Mr. Brice that afternoon for a children’s party, and there was a large quantity of food and drink in the car when he parked it in Victoria Street. It contained also two suitcases, and there were certain articles of wearing apparel, brass fittings for a flagpole, grass seed and plants. It might all have looked like food, he said. When the car was recovered everything was gone except the golf clubs. Mr. Brice has been advertising for the recovery of the articles in the following terms:—“lf the person who took my car on Friday night was in need of food he got a good haul and is welcome to it, but would he be sport enough to return other gear which is of value to me and little use or value to him?” . , , Up till last evening, however, he had heard nothing, although he hoped that whoever took the goods would let uim know where they were to be found.