Audacious Theft: Tool Shed Lifted From Public Works
What must surely be one of the most audacious thefts ever perpetrated in this district happened on Thursday night when - someone, with cool boldness woi'thy of a better cause, lifted a public works toolshed, complete with tools, from a roadside job on the Whakatane-Gpotiki highway beyond Taneatua.
Police are anxious to hear from anyone who saw a truck with a shed on it at any time between 4.30 p.m. Thursday and 7.30 a.m. Friday.: Tradks indicate that the vehicle was probably a half-ton truck, which seems to have picked up the shed from a roadside slip on the Opotiki side of Taneatua, then headed back towards Whakatane. It had Michelin retreads on the back wheels, and a Goodyear retread on the left front wheel. , The missing shed measures 4ft by 4ft, and is sft 6ins high. It is built of pinus insignis 6xl timber, battened with 3xl, and has a slightly sloping malthoid- roof.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 35, 20 December 1948, Page 5
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162Audacious Theft: Tool Shed Lifted From Public Works Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 35, 20 December 1948, Page 5
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