BICYCLE THEFTS
About 2000 bicycles are stolen in Christchurch every year, according to figures ' supplied, in’ Fdsponsd to an inquiry by The Press, by. Mr. Charles Beil,- president of the North Canterbury i'Wholesale and Retail ’Cycle Traders'- Association.- ■ ”•" '. - ‘More than 1600 bicycles had this year alone been found or taken into the police station, -Mr. Bell said, and about 400 of thbm Were’ still' At the station unclaimed. A' large' number of bicycles claimed were, - moreover, stripped of tyre's or essential ''fittings- , When it was considered* 1 that *50,000 bicycles were in use iri Christchurch the present position meant that' a figure approaching perhaps 1 one in 20 of these bicycles were stolen and either not returned to owners or returned after being stripped.’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20914, 14 October 1942, Page 2
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124BICYCLE THEFTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20914, 14 October 1942, Page 2
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