A BOY CENSURED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19504, 12 June 1925, Page 8

A BOY CENSURED.

PUNCTURING MOTOR TYRES. (Fbom Ou.b Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, June 11. A certain boy residing at Rangiriri earned the severe censure of the Council of the Auckland Automobile Association. A resident of the district, in a spirit of solicitude for all motorists, wrote at some length to describe the young man’s pastime of secretly depositing sharp and jagged objects on the main road in wait for passing motor cars. - “A neighbour of mine,” he wrote, “while on his way to Papakura, on passing the point north of the Te Kauwhata junction with the Main road observed a boy (whom the writer named) retreating very hurriedly from the road to the gateway of his parents’ home, after depositing what appeared to be a harmless piece of paper on the wheel track of the road. To my neighbour’s amazement it proved to bo a small piece of wood, part of a fruit case, with no fewer than seven nails driven into it, me points set upwards, and the whole device concealed with paper. The result was a series of puncture. “This.” the writer continued, “was precisely the joint where Dr S. Martin, of Ngaruawahia, recently had a had spill. I am also given to understand that the same boy encourages other boys attending the Rangiriri School to place broken bottles on the road, and broken glass has on more than one occasion been removed lately. I believe a strongly-worded note from ycs- - to the, lad’s father and also oris, to the school mistress would have a beno cial effect.” The writer suggested adding that there wore fix witnesses of the incidents referred to. “The irony of ttie thing, ’ he concluded, “is the fact that this boy has boasted of having collected no less than £ls from the sale of grapes to passing motorists. Possibly he may be contemplating starting a vulcanising shop during the off season for grapes.”—(Laughter.) Members agreed that the case was one in which immediate action mmh.t prove salu-. tar.v. and it was decided to forward the writer’s information to the school mistress.