Police File

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 31, 22 January 1985, Page 4

Police File

Beginning today we plan to run a regular weekly column 'Police File' containing information supplied to us by the Ruapehu region's law enforcement team. By making members of the public more aware of what is happening in the area on a weekly basis, we hope they may be more able to protect their property. Also the column will enable the police to appeal to the public for information or witnesses to help solve outstanding crime.

The police are still looking for the owner of a large sum of money which was lost in Raetihi in early December. The money was handed in to the Raetihi police by a member of the public and is now being looked after by the Ohakune police. No one has come forward to claim the money to date!

On Friday and Saturday the area's police were busy on State Highway 4, 24 kilometres south of Raetihi, after it was feared a car might have plunged off the road into the flood-swollen Mangawhero River. Skid marks were seerf leading to the edge of the cliff at the road-side. However, divers who were called in from Wellington, failed to find anything in the river. Later, motorists who had been driving on the highway earlier on Friday reported that they had seen a vehicle stopped at the edge of the cliff, possibly with one wheel hanging over the edge. It seems likely that a south-bound car nearly came to grief at the deceptive bend, but a small earth wall may have prevented it actually going over. Early on T uesday morning police were called to the Karioi pulp mill after three persons- were disturbed on the premises. As far as could be

established there was no damage and nothing was missing, but it was established the people were on the premises unlawfully. Police enquiries are continuing into the incident. On Wednesday the theft of a large quantity of insecticide, weedicide and fungicide was reported. The chemicals were taken from a market garden property on Old Station Road, Ohakune, between 1 1th and 15th January. The brand names of the stolen chemicals are Ridomil fungicide, Gesagard Weedicide, Ekatin insecticide, Metasystox insecticide and Sencor weedicide. Ohakune police are interested in hearing from anyone who might be able to assist with information.