TOUR ON STOLEN CYCLE
SHIP’S' FIREMAN ADMITS GUILT.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The story of a tour of New Zealand, a large part of which was done on a motorcycle, was told to Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., • to-day. But the machine was a stolen one ' and the rider was in the dock, charged with the theft of it. He was F ank Watson Mclvor, a ship's fireman, aged thirty and, pleading guilty, he was sent to tho Supreme Court for sentence. His peregrinations on the motor-cycl® extended from Christchurch to the backblocks of Southland. Mclvor got some of his petrol free from the Salvation Army. He got the machine in the first place from Gibbs Motor Company, Christchurch, and to a salesman wa® a potential buyer, so was allowed a trial run.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1926, Page 7
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135TOUR ON STOLEN CYCLE Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1926, Page 7
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