Reporter makes the news

Press, 14 February 1986, Page 4

Reporter makes the news

Rangiora reporter Joyriding ended almost before it had begun for two young car converters in Rangiora yesterday afternoon.

They had taken a 1959 Austin Cambridge owned by a reporter at the Rangiora branch office of "The Press” who had arrived at work only shortly before, leaving his car in a car-park nearby. He was disconcerted when told by a fellow staff member that his vehicle was lying upside down a short distance along the street at the

intersection of Blake Street and Good Street. The offenders had gained entry to the car by smashing a quarter-light of the driver’s door.

Bystanders said that the car had almost rolled over in its race from the car-park, when turning from Blake Street into Good Street. With no access from the southern end of Good Street, the driver had reversed in a rush.

The car was flipped on to its roof when the driver tried to make a fast three-, point change of direction

at Blake Street to head the other way out of Good Street.

Apparently unhurt, two youths escaped quickly from the car just in time to leap on to the deck of a blue Morris Minor 1000 utility, racing from the car-park. The Rangiora police would like to hear from anyone who might have seen persons acting suspiciously in the vicinity between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. They are interested in talking with two or more Maori youths, possibly in their 20s, with shoulder-

length hair and who were wearing jeans and black jerseys. The reporter maintained a sense of humour. He said that if he could not find the news he could make it.