Stolen Car

The three boys and a girl - all aged 10-14 - were discovered safe in the New South Wales town of Grafton on Sunday.

They had left Gracemere, in Queensland, sometime earlier in the weekend. One boy reportedly wrote a note to his family to say he was leaving.

Police said they would lay charges, but did not specify which ones.

The children were not all from the same family and had stolen the 4x4 from one of their parents, authorities said.

'Barely reaches window'

The small Nissan Sunny was taken at about 5pm when two armed men approached the car when it was slowing down at the crossing and forced the driver, a Mt Hagen man aged 45 and his 14 year old son out of the car.

The matter was reported to the Gerehu police station.

Police later recovered the car abandoned at the Erima Wildlife area during the early hours of yesterday  morning.

Meantime, in another incident at Rainbow yesterday morning, a couple from Oro was arrested for drug possession.

The CRV car was recovered by a police unit at about 6 on Sunday morning after some residents called to tell police that it was reportedly abandoned there earlier in the morning.

Police report that the car was taken at Rainbow at about 11pm last Thursday night when its accountant owner was tailed to his house from the shopping mall at Vision City

The man was held up by three men armed with a homemade gun and a bush knife.

The car is now at the Boroko traffic yard and appears to have been stripped of its speakers and sound system.