PRISONERS CAN OPEN CARS
An enlightening story was told to a meeting of the Council of the North Island Motor Union in Wellington yesterday by Mr. F. J. Hill, secretary of the Automobile Association, Wanganui, when the council was discussing the problem of reducing the incidence of car conversions.
Mr. T. M. N. Rodgers (Manawatu) said many New Zealand prisons seemed to offer an unofficial course on car conversions and those who escaped were quick to use this knowledge. There bad been an amazing number of conversions in the neighbourhood of prison farms in the National Park area which had not been made public. When caught the offenders said they had learnt what to. do from other inmates.
“The prison authorities,” he added, “should see to it that such education is not allowed to proceed. ’ ’ Illustrating the remarks of the previous speaker. Mr. Hill told a story about the superintendent of a North Island prison farm, who asked one of the inmates to clean his car. which was locked at the time. When the superintendent unlocked the door of the car after it was cleaned, he found a note pinned to the steering wheel. “Hope I’ve made a good job of it.” The prisoner said later- “We all know how to open cars. That’s a cinch!”—(PA).
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Wanganui Chronicle, 18 February 1949, Page 4
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