Inspired by a spirit of adventure, “the spirit which makes Empire-builders,” said the defending solicitor, two Canterbury schoolboys got up in the middle of the night, and, wearing only pyjamas, pushed a master’s ear out of the garage and went for a joy-ride. At a bridge near Canterbury they ran into a pony, breaking its leg and smashing the car’s headlights. Becoming panic-stricken, they, abandoned the car and walked across fields to the school, where they' made a clean breast to the headmaster. The boys had good characters, and the summons against them was dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act on payment of costs.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 911, 4 November 1933, Page 33 (Supplement)
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