THIEVES RAID MOTOR.
ALL WHEELS STOLEN. A dilapidated motor-car was recently to bo seen standing in tho water table at the side of the road at Tangoio, between Napier and Wairoa. A motorist who had set out from Napier had tho misfortune to break tho crown wheel in the mechanism of tho car. Tho vehicle was pushed to tho side of the. road and tho owner returned to Napier to obtain tho necessary repairs. On returning next morning he was amazed to find that all four wheels had been removed, together with tho magneto and other parts. A similar case of plunder occurred some lime ago when a largo lorry caught fire and was reduced to a mass oi wreekago. On returning to the sceno of tho fire a few days later the lorry driver found the "big end" of the engin«..had been removed, a task which had entailed considerable work.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20607, 4 July 1930, Page 14
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151THIEVES RAID MOTOR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20607, 4 July 1930, Page 14
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