“AVo’re deeply grateful to the person who took our car, not because he took it, but because when he had finished with it he loft it undamaged—which was very kind of him.” That is the message that Air AA 7 illis scuds out to the joy-rider who took the firm’s car on Friday afternoon and started off on an SO-raile spin (says a Christchurch paper). He took the car from the parking place in Cambridge Terrace near AYprcester 'Street. It had. been left there by Air E. Lawrence, one of the firm’s salesmen. AVhen Air Lawrence returned shortly after 5 o’clock and found that the car had gone, he reported the matter to the police. Next morning they informed him that it had boon found. AVith the head-lights burning and handbrake on, the car was discovered on the roadside near, the lower sanatorium, Cashmere Hills, early on Saturday morning by two workmen.
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Northern Advocate, 7 April 1927, Page 3
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