“BIG-GAME” THIEVES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 7

“BIG-GAME” THIEVES

Attention to Government Bus and Lorry TWO STRANGE CASES Two audacious, and seemingly irrational, acts have been reported to the Hastings police during the pact few days and the circumstances surrounding each are such as to baffle any logical conclusion being drawn. In one instance it seems that some attempt was made to remove a Government bus from the shed in St. Aubyn street, and in doing so the person concerned ran the vehicle against the doorway of the shed and considerablydamaged the exterior framework of the body of the bus. It was left in tins position, with the engine turned off. The puzzle is: What would anyone want with a Government bus? It could be readily traced and then again it would prove a difficult machine for most people to handle without considerable experience of heavy traffi.vehicles.

la tho same vicinity, that of Kobt Holt’s yard, there is also reported an attempt to remove a lorry at night. An employee who was passing by heard the lorry being started up and, thinking that it was one of his fellowemployees, went to lend assistance. However, when lie approached the lorry two young men. vacated the driver’s seat, rushed across the yards and disappeared out of sight. A peculiar feature of this incident is the fact that the yard gates were closed and securely padlocked. How then were the intruders going to make their get-away? is the major question that the police are asking.