TAXIS COMMANDEERED
INVERCARGILL MYSTERY
TWO CARS REMOVED (Per Press Association.) INVEKCARGILL, this day. Mystery: surrounds the removal of two taxis from flip ltd Maul; rink in Dee street, lnvoreargiil, about 4..'!0 o'clock yesterday morning. While two drivers on the late shift slept soundly in the oflicc some persons look charge ol one of the taxis and drove quietly away. It is known that at about thai hour, a Red Baud taxi crashed into a hedge in Duku street and a man and woman were seen to leave it. Later a second taxi was removed from the rink. At least, thai is what oinc of the drivers believes, as lie discovered it backed into a kerb with all the lights on not far from the rink. Tho first car had also been returned damaged. The .police theory is that the revellers commandeered the first car and, after the accident in Duke street, coolly returned to the rink and removed the second ear in order to tow the first one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 9
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168TAXIS COMMANDEERED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 9
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