GROWING MENACE TO MOTOR OWNERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 122, 13 August 1927, Page 1

GROWING MENACE TO MOTOR OWNERS

CARS STOLEN AND BURNED FOUR IN THREE WEEKS Last night another motor-car was stolen by joyriders and destroyed by fire. This make the fourth to meet a similar fate during the past three weeks. The car was owned by Mr. Robert Sands- Sinclair of 106 Valley Road, Ml. Eden, and was stolen from Bellwood Avenue Dominion Road at 11 30 o’clock last evening. Twenty minutes later the Mt. Roskill Fire Brigade was called to the corner of May and Albert Roads, Mt. Albert, where Mr. Sinclair’s car was burning. The car was valued at £ 440. Another car was also stolen last night by joyriders, but it was recovered later undamaged. This car, valued at £ 80, was the property of Mr. Percy Stacpoole, of 617 Great North Road. It was left in Albert Street last evening at 4 o’clock, but when Mr. Stacpoole returned at 9.30 o’clock the car had gone. It was found this morning by the police near the Mental Hospital. Avondale. Since April seven cars have been stolen and burned in and around Auckland. Other than the destruction of Mr. A. G. Durvin’s car, which was reported in yesterday’s Sun, the victims during the last three weeks were Mr. J. Houton, of 85 Rose Street Ponsonby, whose car was found burned in Abbott’s Way on July 26, and Mr. T. Buckley. Lin wood Avenue, whose car was destroyed at Western Springs on August 3. Three stolen care were found burned during April and May. Many others have been stolen and recovered later, and one was wrecked in the crater on Mt. Eden.