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Mangaia Loses Its Lone Shop Window
From Our Own Correspondent MANGAIA, Cook Is. mHE customary quiet of Kaumata Vil -3 lage, Mangaia Island, was broken on August 17 by a loud crash, and the sound of shattering glass, which brought villagers to the spot on the run, expecting something in the nature of a major calamity.
It appears that the store of M. and P.
Kereroa, a progressive native firm owning the only shop window on the island, had been illegally entered, not by a prowling burglar but by the store’s own Ford truck.
The vehicle, which had been under repair, was being tested, and had ap parently been put in full working order again. Upon approaching the glazed front of the shop, however, its brakes failed, with the result that the lorry crashed right through the wall, causing expensive damage to the plate-glass windows.