A JOY RIDE.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1920, Page 8

A JOY RIDE.

AND HOW IT EXDED.

Far more interesting and eventful than (hose concerned in the affair anticipated was a joy ride which (states the Stan some boys at Pa tea undertook on New Years live. Mr. Crosbie, the manager ol' the Kakaratnea Dairy Factory, who had a new Maxwell ear, took a run down to Patea on the evening in question, and leaving his car outside a =hop went oil' h> do some business. Later in the evening a small boy toid him that there was going to "be '•something doing'' that uiglit, as some boys had gone for a joy ride in a ear. Air. Crosbie never dreamt that his ear was being utilised for the ride, and on returning to the place where he had left it, to iiis surprise the machine had disappeared. .After waiting for a time for the return of the travellers, who, however, failed to return for a very good reason, an extensive search was made, but without resr.it. fairly in the morning the homes of the boys' who, it was alleged, had undertaken' the rid.;, were visited, but they stoutly remtdiated the suggestion, one slating "that lie had ncvei' driven it ear in his life, and ordering lite policeman out of his room. However, when confronted by a small boy who happened to lie standing on (he footpath when the joy riders set oil' on their (rip, owned up that the "game whs

Jt seems that the hoys took the Maxwell towards Ilawera. probably coming into town. On (he return'" journey there was certainly '•something doing" near the Devil's iilbow, the bane of many a motorist, for just on the Patea side the car went over the bank, falling some fifteen feet down the bank,

sry badly smashed. TJie j. v ..„„.-, o OC ,u to have had a wonderful ownpe irom serious injury. With the of ropes fixed to a handy telephone ,--t, the car was brought back to the road, but its appearance does not rrive promise of its being much Mod in "the future,