MOTOR-CAR CHASE
INCIDENT IN WELLINGTON. ALLEGED ACT OF CONVERSION. ARREST OF A YOUNG MAN. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Minus one wheel and. amid a shower of sparks, a converted motor-car careered along Adelaide Road, Newtown, in the'small hours of this morning at a speed estimated at between 40 and 50 jniles an hour. It forced a taxi on to the footpath and the incensed driver of the latter gave chase, which led to Berhampore and then down into Newtown again, fiinally ending near the Wellington South Post Office, Riddiford Street, Newtown. There the converted car pulled up and the driver of the pursuing taxi, who was not aware tnat the car was being driven by an unauthorised person, went across to interview the driver. The man thereupon left the stolen car and jumped the Post Office fence, and the taxi-driver sent for the police who, after a chase on foot, arrested a young man, who will he charged to-day with unlawfully converting c&'i* to liis own nsc.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 61, 23 December 1935, Page 6
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