MOTOR - CAR THEFTS.
EPIDEMIC 'IN SYDNEY.
ORGANISED GANG AT WORK.
[FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] / \ . . SYDNEY, May 2.
• Never a week passes but one hears of one or mora motor-cars . being stolen in Sydney. So persistently and consistently have the car thieves prosecuted their . calling of late that motor-car owners are forced to the conclusion that the business is being organised. Most of the cars are recovered, but the remainder, and they are considerable _in numbers, remain on the " missing" list. It is believed that the thieves are adopting the practice of the " specialists " in the . United States, who, after stealing a car, speedily take it to pieces, make a thorough search for ' special identification marks, and then reassemble it with a liberal .mixture of parts of other, stolen cars of the same make. :
The police are fully, alive to the seriousness of the position, and are now experimenting with measures which will minimiso the menace. . Two motor experts have been specially commissioned t>y the police, and - they are doing good work. The . police of all ranks are also keenly interested in the problem of chocking the car thieves, but it is essential that they should have the co-opera-tion of the public. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18395, 10 May 1923, Page 10
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201MOTOR – CAR THEFTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18395, 10 May 1923, Page 10
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