ADVENTUROUS PAIR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5461, 14 August 1929, Page 4

ADVENTUROUS PAIR.

LIVING IN A DUG-OUT. ARREST OF YOUNG PEOPLE. Following their arrest near Femhill Robert Forbes Raverty, an Australian, aged 22 years, and Irene Campbell Pryce, aged 17 years, were charged at the Police Court in Hastings recently with breaking and entering the store of Louis Gumbley by night at Fernhill on the previous Tuesday and v'ith committing a crime therein. The couple presented a most dilapidated appearance. The girl was attired in a pair of man’s trousers, a man’s shirt with no collar or tie, and a nondescript coat, and she was hatters. In applying for a remand Detective Farquharson, who, with Constable Al sop, arrested accused, said that further charges against the male accused were pending. Both were remanded in accordance with the detective’s application, the male accused in custody and the female on bail totalling £lOO.

The couple had for some days been I’ving in a kind of dug-out in the part of Femhill known as “monkey-land. 1 ’ Their cooking was done in an old and battered billy and an old kettle. Goods collected by the two police officers who arrested accused were of extraordinary variety and quantity, and almost covered the floor of one of the rooms at the police station. There were seven mgs, two pairs of extremely orndte men’s shoes, a pair of trousers, some hundreds of cigarettes, tins of tobacco, many boxes and packets of chocolates, a number of white handkerchiefs, tinned foods, and articles too numerous to mention. Detective Farquharson communicated with the girl’s parents, requesting that suitable clothing be sent so that she could be properly dressed to go home. The necessary garments were forwarded, and the girl subsequently left the police station in a smart costume.