THEFT AT TAURANGA
TRAVELLERS’ SAMPLES TAKEN On a charge of breaking and entering a garage at Tauranga on the night of January 27, stealing traveller’s samples valued at £95, and receiving stolen goods, two men, George Land and Bernard Francis Murray, were found guilty at the Hamilton Supreme Court yesterday, and remanded for sentence until Monday. In the judge’s summing-up, lie said t,hat it was not disputed that the garage was broken into, or the goods stolen, between the hours of 11 , p.m. on January 27 and 8 a.m. on January 28. Evidence had shown that accused were in Tauranga on the night, and were driving a peculiarly-painted motor-van, which was identified by at least two witnesses. When the van was halted by the police at Hamilton, certain of the stolen goods were found in it. Murray’s story that he bought them for 30s from a man on the Tauranga road had laid him open to a charge of receiving stolen goods. After an hour’s retirement the jury found the prisoners guilty on all charges, adding a rider asking that mercy be extended to the younger prisoner, Murray, on account of the influence exerted over him by Land. next test was climbing a clay bank about 2£ft. high. The Guy made light work of that, and was then set to a speed test over some open country, running easily at 25-30 miles an hour (although it can do 35 miles an hour on hard roads). The latest test undertaken was to drive the truck down a steep gully, with a grade of probably one in two. The gully was virgin country, and covered with a dense burnt-gorse undergrowth, up to the top of the radiator. The Guy got through that without the slightest trouble. These tests, and particularly the last one, show the capabilities of this truck —capabilities which, without a doubt, will make the Guy six-wheeler an ideal vehicle for work in the rough country in the backblocks of New Zealand. It literally can’t be blocked. The distributing agency is in the hands of John Burns and Co. Ltd. 14
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 300, 10 March 1928, Page 12
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351THEFT AT TAURANGA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 300, 10 March 1928, Page 12
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