AMAZING ESCAPADE
BOVS CAUSE CHEAT DAMAGE NAPIER, May 6. During tlio week-end two boys, one aged nine and the other eleven, eanscd damage csiimated at £2)!) t;> the stock and buildings of YV. Plowman and Sons, cordial manufacturers, Hastings. The boys, alter prising open the !,>■>>• wifli a crowbar.' threw tins of powder out of the windows. They nvke .non a bund red weight barrel ol •marie arid and spilled the contents n the floor. Several gallon jars of e.Tsences, some valued at £-1 each, a ere broken, and the contents poured on to the acid.
The hoys then swept the debris to a hole in the floor of the first storey, through which it lo' I to the ground in a great litter. Downstairs the hoys threw about awire.s of bottles and syphons and .1 o'lsands of labels.
\ mot T-l:'iTy in tin? yard was loaded with empty eases am! broken bottles before the hoys set about with the intention of filling the petrol tanks with lemonade. The rap had been screwed off and the l>"vx were about to ’ our in the lemonade when a constable arrived.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1929, Page 3
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186AMAZING ESCAPADE Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1929, Page 3
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