“THE LAMP THAT FAILED”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 13

“THE LAMP THAT FAILED”

BORROWED A MOTOR-BIKE TWO LADS CHARGED It’s nice to meet obliging- people when something goes wrong with your motorbike. Arthur Cadman’s light went out the other night, and he was pushing his machine along the road when he met three lads. They were only too willing to help him get it going again, but the lamp refused to shed its beams along the road in spite of the efforts of all four. Cad man was only too glad to avail himself of the offer to leave the machine in a private garage for the night, and went his way. “Your bicycle won’t be touched,” the youngest of the lads assured him. Hardly was he out of sight and hearing however than out came the machine and the three in turn enjoyed spins up and down the road, with the result that one cannoned into a post and put more than the lamp out of action.

In the Police Court this morning, two of the lads, William Adams and Albert Duncan Edward, pleaded guilty to converting the machine to their own use. The youngest of the trio is being dealt with at the Children's Court.

Borrowing the machine proved an expensive business, for each of the two lads was fined £2, with 14s 6d costs, and ordered to make good the damage to the extent of £1 7s 8d each.