THIEVES TO BL[?] FOR GARAGE [?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 18 February 1947, Page 4

THIEVES TO BL[?] FOR GARAGE [?]

TRADE . CXDNjEqj furtherTreh , . brokgn DR| A conjecture that 1 early on Saturday the garage; premises , Bates and Son Ltd., ^ by thieves attemptingt, either one or both the that were found blazi^ brigade after a ea]] \ answered at 4 a.m., jSj among .garagemen jD The report that anothe had " been broken yesterday morning moved, appears to suh it. In the early hours i morning the garage ^ Messrs . Hale Nicholls, j Street, -were broken into i car was ' stolen. The thia entry through the two f> after f orcing the loclcs vri'j Although the car's tad parts full, the intrudeg more from the tank ofs down wagon ancl also t length of rubber hose.aj can, apparently with a i ther depredations. The car was a Ford 1| slate grey, with red J The registered number ■ The total damage dosl and buildings by the mjvl outbreak on the garage J. C. Bates and Son, FeS early on Saturday mor J mated at £1600. Thek-oH were pushed, blazing, c;H street, were burned to M £600. Three loose tyrfiB badly eharred. StructurJ the building amounted tojM It is now thoug-ht tkifl was broken into and thfl tcok fright after accideniM some benzine alight. 1H defiiiitely f oreed and fl both vehicles were mm J Garage proprietors al opinion that the person who, it is thought, ma« from Auckland-r-as a earfl that city recently wasr* Rotorua- — intend to ti'asH oning their stolen vetiiifl go. The theft of the car J Hale Nicholls would seemfl this theory. ■ The police are investijM