A modern Sherlock Holmes can tell the race and sex of an individual with only a few hairs from the head as clues. This novel method of identification is based on the comparative weight of human hairs. Hooliganism surely reached its limit in the Upper Riccarton district when a party of youths conducted a “ gate-lifting ” campaign the other evening (reports the Christchurch Sun). Residents of Waimairi, Ham, and Avonhead roads woke the next morning to discover that their front gates, in some instances twice the size of the average garden gates, had been removed, the majority off their hinges. Some were taken a considerable distance away. ■
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Otago Witness, Issue 3911, 26 February 1929, Page 20
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