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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1925, Page 4

man residing in a district not a bundled miles from Balehitha has been the object of anxious police inquiries tor some days past( reports the “'Free Press”). Particularly were the police anxious to know if lie had visited the North Island with his motor-car recently. '1 he reason of these anxious inquiries was made apparent when the man in question received a notice from the clerk to the Lower 11 titt Borough Council requesting; him to show cause why he should not lie prosecuted for a breach of the Lower Unit Borough's by-law in having driven a motor-car through the borough on a certain evening dt) miles an hour. In fact, the document in question assessed the speed of the ear at 30 miles an hour. The joke lies in the fact that the man has not been out of the South Island, nor even away from his own neighbourhood for any distance for months past. But the number of the ear given by the Unit official is identical with that of our friend’s car. and he can only surmise that there must he a duplication of numbers, or else someone has been impudent enough to steal his number.