Western News: October 15, 2019

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Tuesday October 15 2019 7
PREVENTION:
Hornby
Community Patrol
chairman Ken
Chamberlain
wants to work with
car dealers and
businesses to refit
number plates with
anti-theft screws.
PHOTO: GEOFF
SLOAN ​
Plan to stop number plate
theft fails to gain traction
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
A BOLD plan to stop vehicle
licence plate thefts may have
come unstuck.
The Hornby Community
Patrol is set to ask businesses to
fit number plates with anti-theft
screws to their fleet vehicles.
It aims to stop people stealing
licence plates, fitting them to
other vehicles, and carrying out
crimes to avoid being identified.
Car sales yards in Hornby
will also be asked to take part.
The anti-theft screws cost $5 to
install.
But car dealers and other
businesses contacted by Western
News were not enthusiastic
about the idea. Avon City Ford
chief executive John Luxton
said it has never had issues with
number plate thefts.
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Motors owner, Ray McLean,
weren’t interested initiative
either.
Mr Walsh said it can’t use
the anti-theft screws due to
its dealer arrangement. Mr
McLean said he wouldn’t spend
money on the initiative.
“In the 18 years I have been
here, I have never had a number
plate stolen,” he said.
Campbell Motors owner
Grant Campbell said he would
consider the initiative but
did not believe it would stop
number plate thefts. He said this
was because thieves would rip
the number plates off without
removing the bolts.
Patrol chairman Ken
Chamberlain was unfazed by
the response and will continue
with the plan.
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Scrum of talent at Lady Wigram
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
LADY WIGRAM Retirement
Village residents got behind their
team as part of a in-house talent
show.
Lady Wigram’s Got Talent was
organised by residents John and
Linda Tucker.
About 15 people performed
as part of the evening, which
included a group of residents
known as The Wigram Squad,
who acted out rugby moves
to the Crusaders theme song
Conquest of Paradise.
Mrs Tucker said the
performance had “hilarious”
scrums, a try and even a couple
of “magnificent” kicks which
sent the ball straight into their
theatre production manager
Judith McCleary’s hands in the
audience.
“They had been rehearsing for
weeks. They acted their part very
seriously, which made it even
funnier and it was all in slow
motion,” she said.
Performances included owner
John Tooby playing the piano
with his daughter Olivia on the
saxophone.
Mr Tooby also played a duet
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Village
residents
showed off
their rugby
moves during
a talent quest.
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The Wigram Squad won the
talent quest, while Annette
Quinn was second with her
rendition of Memory from
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats.
“We also had two unexpected
star of the show spots where
we plucked people out of the
audience to sing a song we had
chosen for them,” Mrs Tucker
said.
The audience were given words
and silly headgear for the songs.
“That was a lot of fun, they did
well,” she said.
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