Two Boys Wreck Cordial Factory
DAMAGE OVER £2OO AMAZING ESCAPADE Press Association NAPIER, Monday. During the week-end two boys, one aged nine and the other eleven, caused damage estimated at £2OO to the stock and buildings of W. Plowman and Sons, cordial manufacturers, at Hastings. In their amazing escapade, the boys, after prizing open a door with an Iron bar, threw tins of powder out of the windows and broke open a hundredweight barrel of tartaric acid and spilled the contents over tjie floor. Several gallon jars of essences, some valued at £4 each, were broken and the contents poured on the acid. The boys then swept the debris to a hole in the floor of the first storey, through which it fell to the ground floor in a great litter. Downstairs, the boys threw about scores of bottles and syphons, and thousands of labels. A motor-lorry in the yard was loaded with empty cases and broken bottles, and the boys then set about filling the petrol tank with lemonade. The cap of the tank had been screwed off and the boys were about to pour in lemonade when a constable arrived.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 656, 7 May 1929, Page 1
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