“A POSITIVE CRIME"

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12622, 6 December 1926, Page 12

“A POSITIVE CRIME"

GLASS WILFULLY STREWN ACROSS ROADWAY BITUMEN TRACK COVERED. What is tantamount to a crime was perpetrated upon motorists by some person or persons as yet unknown during Saturday night or early Sunday morning. On the bitumen track just at the corner of Houghton Bay road, for a distance of about 30ft and right across the roadway, was laid broken glass, comprising beer bottles, ink bottles, and various other classes of bottles. Ink stains could be seen plainly on tho bitumen surface. This broken glass was in small pieces, and when a resident of Lyall Bay was driving towards Island Bay at 10 a.m. yesterday he was surprised to find this terrible trap awaiting some innocent drivers. Tho motorist in question promptly secured a broom and succeeded in sweeping the glass off the bitumen track. Cars have been known to capsize through sudden punctures and blowouts, and descending the grade iust at the spot where the glass was found yesterday a motorist could very easily have met with a terrible disaster should his tyres have suddenly collapsed. It should not be necessary to point out the .serious menace to motorists of such an act. No doubt tho police will locate the offender .or offenders.