POLICE MOBILITY
HOW ROBBERS ESCAPED In connection with the removal of a heavy safe from Messrs. E>e Luen and Hardley’s garage at 465 Manukau Road, Newmarket, clear illustration is given of the necessary and desirable provision of better transport for the local police of Mount Albert, Onehunga, and Mount Roskill. The safe had been removed to the cover of some trees at Three Kings, Mount Roskill, and two men were seen trying to prise it open. Information was immediately sent to the police at Onehunga, but most important loss of time occurred, it is understood, in consequence of the police being unable to secure a motor-car to travel to the spot indicated. Mr. J. Handley, in conversation with a SUN man this morning, emphatically endorsed the general opinion that had the police been equipped with some means of rapid transport, the chances of capturing the delinquents would have been very bright, and this provision of one or two motor-bicycles is just what THE SUN has been advocating for some weeks past.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 87, 4 July 1927, Page 9
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171POLICE MOBILITY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 87, 4 July 1927, Page 9
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