TWO YOUTHS ARRESTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1939, Page 5

TWO YOUTHS ARRESTED

ALLEGED WERAROA ESCAPEES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 3. Alleged to have escaped from Weraroa, two youths were arrested today in Urenui and another in Waitara by constables stationed in Waitara. They made an extensive search of the locality acting upon information that a new car which had been missing from Levin had been seen in the district. TRAIL OF CONVERTED CARS. POLICE INVESTIGATING. WAIPUKURAU, July 3. The abandoning in Waipukurau of a motor-ear removed from Levin, together with the conversion- of a Waipukurau car. suggests that the boys who absconded from • the Weraroa Training Farm at the weekend are travelling northward. About eight o’clock yesterday morning, Mrs W. Nockels, Victoria Street. Levin, reported that tier motor-car had been removed from outside her residence some lime on Saturday night. The car. a small model, had been locked. and had a full tank of petrol. This car was abandoned outside the Waipukurau Public Hospital early yesterday morning, and remained there throughout the day, being subsequently recovered by Constable D. Sutton. Between five and eight O’clock Past night, a car belonging to Mr Basil Goodger, electrician, Waipukurau, was removed from Kitchener Street. It is a fawn-coloured ten horse-power 1936 model, the registered number being 157—142. It had about three gallons in the petrol tank when taken. The police are investigating. CAR OWNERS ANNOYED. TIRED OF CONVERSIONS. WELLINGTON, This Day. Conversions of motor-cars by escapees from the Weraroa Boys' Training Farm have become so annoying 1o car-owners in the district that the executive of the Automobile Association (Wellington) decided last night, to draw again the attention of the Minister in charge of the institution, Mr Fraser, to their depredations. Mr R. S. Mitchell. Levin, said that the. attitude of the Government over the last few years had seemed hike warm. The training farm was in semidisrepair. The Levin Chamber of Commerce had discussed with the Government several times the question ol getting rid of the farm. “So far as I can see we have all the young sneak thieves, car pinchers and embryo burglars in the world there,” he said. “The irony of the thing is this. When they pinch a car and are brought back to the farm no action is taken." The Minister visited the farm recently, reprimanded the boys and promised to send them up a billiard table and a set of band instruments. Mr Mitchell said that one boy had [stolen 14 cars.