THEFTS OF CARS
OX THE INCREASE
(Unite'* Press Association)
WELLINGTON, This Day. _A meeting of the AVellington Automobile Association discussed the increasing thefts of motor cars throughout the dominion, and urged that the civic authorities should either provide watchers or permit the association to employ men at parking places. It was also urged that legislation should be passed making what at present is termed “conversion” of cars actual theft.
More motor patrols are needed for, as one speaker remarked, the public are on wheels and the police on foot-, so the latter have no chance of pursuing offenders,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 June 1927, Page 4
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98THEFTS OF CARS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 June 1927, Page 4
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