Police File

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 36, 18 February 1986, Page 16

Police File

Raetihi The premises of Dalgety Crown in Seddon Street, Raetihi, was broken into at 3.00am on Monday. Constable Trevor Pullen said the offenders entered by breaking a toilet window and climbing inside. However, they set the alarm off and nothing was taken. ★ ★ ★ No one was injured when a Wanganui Newspapers vehicle hit a crash barrier about 1 8 kilometres south of Raetihi, on Parapara Road. Their white Ford Laser, which was returning from the Waimarino A and P Show, was damaged and was towed to Reynolds Motors in Raetihi. ★ ★ ★ The $520 front windscreen of a truck belonging to Barrett and Taura Transport was broken sometime overnight on Monday 10 February. Constable Trevor Pullen said it appeared that a stone was thrown at the windscreen while the truck was parked in Barrett and Taura 's yard which fronts on to Seddon Street, Raetihi. Ohakune Firearms and a video were taken while a party was in progress in Tainui Street on Friday evening or the early hours of Saturday morning. Police are investigating the incident, said Sergeant Neil Coker. ★ ★ * Police attended a disturbance at the Ohakune Hotel in the Public Bar on Friday night at about 8.30pm. A 1 9-year-old youth was later arrested for an unrelated offence at the hotel. He will be appearing in the Ohakune District Court on 27 February. ★ ★ ★ A substantial amount of property was discovered stolen by the absentee owners of a house in Ohakune when they arrived there last Wednesday afternoon. Items including clothing and liquor were taken from the Utahuia Street house at the Ohakune Junction, said Sergeant Neil Coker. Police are investigating the theft. Waiouru Taihape Police recently discovered 134 cannabis plants near the Pillars of Hercules, on the Desert Road, north of Waiouru. Detective Sergeant Colin" Sanderson said that the plants were well-netted, fenced off and healthy, and were some distance from the Desert Road along a fourwheel drive track. They were in two plots, one containing 33 plants and theotherlOl. They were removed and the surrounding fences destroyed.