TO AID POLICE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1933, Page 6

TO AID POLICE

I FLYING SQUAD AT HAWERA

ALLEGED CAR CONVERSION

(Per Prest Association — Copyright.)

HAWERA,. May 24. The effectiveness of a determined

effort, which is being made in /South Taranaki to starrp out the wrongful conversion of motor-cars was strikingly.

illustrated wlie n fh e Automobile Association’s flying squad, working in cooperation with the police, assisted on Saturday in the arrest of two young men, who, it is alleged, removed a car from 1 Hawera. '>. .

Directly the loss of the, oar was reported, the secretary, Mr W. G. Wqlkdey set the organisation in motion. In such cases radio broadcasting authorities Dire supplied with a detailed description of the car. This *praetico exists in other centres, but the assocntion does not stop at that. A large number of association members with powerful cars have been enrolled as a •flying squad’. Each car has its own appointed patrol area, and no time is lost in giving instructions. Directly an .alarm is raised cars speed to stations, which cover all the .main roads within a wide radius of 'Haw-era. Several cars are ananged for each station, so even if one is not, available tho organisation is complete. A joy-rider may get out of town 'before the cordon is drawn, but has practically no chance of getting (back. Passing motorists are carefully scrutinised from suitable, vantage points, and if doubt exists dis to bona fides the police are notified.. The youths arrested were not '.in the 'car which had been removed ‘from Hawera, but were in a taxi from Wanganui, where the car had bee^-found a, "few hours previously. v ■