The festive season may have arrived but not everyone seems to be getting into the giving spirit of Christmas.
Community Constable Bruce Dow said two males, aged 17 and 18, were arrested and charged with theft on Monday afternoon after $37 was stolen from a Lions honesty box in Kakanui.
The pair will be summoned to appear in court at a later date.
• No-one was injured when a stack of timber secured to a trailer smashed through the windscreen of a car which had failed to stop approaching the pedestrian crossing on Thames Highway, between Frome and Farnham Sts, yesterday afternoon.
A police spokesman said the driver of the vehicle behind had been distracted.
He said the driver had not noticed the vehicle towing the trailer in front had stopped at the crossing.
• A 43-year-old cyclist was taken to Lakes District Hospital with a broken leg after he was hit by a car at Lake Hayes Estate, near Queenstown, at 1.45am yesterday.
Sergeant Mark Gill, of Queenstown, said the car was being driven by a 33-year-old Irish national living in the resort, whose car left the gravel road at Lake Hayes Reserve and crashed after hitting the cyclist.
He said the two occupants of the car received minor injuries in the crash. Inquiries were continuing into the incident.
