MOTOR BANDITS
ANOTHER HOLD-UP. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association j , - WELLINGTON, August 10. , Two armed men .held up Mr -William Piere at a petrol station, at Sun shine Bay at Eastbourne early toniglit. Tlie bandits secured £5 18s fid, and they then cut the telephone wires at the garage to delay an alarm being given. ' The . bandits, apparently, had a car waiting, rounds one of the many curves on the road, and after collecting, their loot, disappeared in the darkness. , Air Pierre hurried to the nearest telephone, some distance away, and gave the alarm. The road on., which the robbery took place is a lonely one, and' it comes to an end beyond Eastbourne, only a track .continuing on -to-Pencarrow. At. the Petone end the only exit from the road can be easily watched, and provided the police to-night get .there in time, they would be able to. intercept- the robber’s car. It is feared,, however, that by the time that the alarm was given and tlie police arrived, the robbers would have passed this point, and got away into the maze of streets at Petone, thence returning to the city.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1931, Page 3
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