STOLEN CAR

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1932, Page 3

STOLEN CAR

FOUND WRECKED

CHRISTCHURCH, December 0

The wreckage uf a motor-car subsequently ident tied as a vehicle stolen iron) the city during the evening,, was round at the foot of a precipitous quarter-mile slope from the Evans. Pass road, Iretwc.ii Sumner and Lyttelton last even Jig. It had been mashed to matchwood in the fall, jieces of the machine being found at ai'ious points on the cliff bttween the •i.ew'read and the old one below.

The car was a five-seater tourer, a ■920 model, and belt.nged to Mr F. W. Nightingale, of 210 Idris road, Feudalton., The theft occurred some time (v.ween p ai d 10.15—probably shortly after 8 o’clock, for the time of its rash over the cliffs is fixed at before 10 o’clock by some fishermen who heard the noise of the full from Collan’s Bay.

At the point where the car was run over the cliff, the road is bordered only by a hglit wire fence, part of this being carried away. For a short distance there is a gradual slope, after which the cliff-drops sheer to the old road three or,, four hundred feet beneath, iiie Lyttelton police made a search of the locality, as it was feared at first a s o ri' ns accident hod occurred. Communication with the-" Christchurch u.Lioii later established the fact that the car had been stolen, and it is preuried that it was pushed over the cliff after it had been used by joy-riders,