TWENTY-NINE RAT TYRES
MALICIOUS DAMAGE TO MOTOR-LORRIES EMPLOYEE’S DISCOVERY Thoughts of major tragedies and motorists' nightmares filled the mind of an employee of Newdick Bros., Ltd., produce merchants, Great South Road, this morning when he passed through the yard near the garages. He was about to catch a horse in an adjoining paddock when he noticed a tyre of one of the firm's trucks was flat. Investigating, he discovered that all the tyres of seven out of 17 trucks had been punctured, as well as one spare. Twenty-nine flat tyres! Mr. Newdick has no idea who did the damage, which was effected with a blade-edge about half an inch in length. Some of the tyre covers are very thick and the instrument would have had to be hammered through almost an inch of hard rubber. The marauder must have been an assiduous worker.
Nothing except the tyres were touched. It took the van-drivers all yesterday to repair the damage which was apparently done on Saturday night.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1071, 8 September 1930, Page 10
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166TWENTY-NINE RAT TYRES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1071, 8 September 1930, Page 10
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