Police Hot an Trail of Escapees
SEARCH SHIFTED TO WAITAKERES Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 6. Three messages received from difr ferent parts of the Waitakere district this morning started a day-long energetic police drive in and around the hundreds of acres of dense bush and scrub to find the four prisoners who escaped from the Auckland prison last Tuesday night and changed the focus of the search from the Sdlverdale-Albany sector, where it had been concentrated since the small Auckland car was found abandoned there on Friday morning. Police cars with radio receivers shuttled to and fro over roads leading in all directions. This is probably the first occasion in New Zealand when the police had used radio to help them in work of this kind. At stated periods to-day one of the Auckland broadcasting stations sent brief messages of instruction to the patrolling cars equipped with receivers, an innovation which greatly helped the organic g officers to coordinate their efforts and save valuable time. At a late hour it was understood the police were hot on the trail.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 237, 7 October 1940, Page 7
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