CAR CONVERSION.
TWO MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. “The police recently asked for the assistance of the Court to stop car conversions, which are very prevalent now,” said Detective-Sergeant J. McClnng to Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., when Leo Oswald Buttle, a labourer, aged 40, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning on five charges, including two of car conversion. Buttle was sentenced to two months imprisonment on a charge of converting a car valued at £4OO, the property of Thomas Hubert Lee. The other charges were of converting a £250 car, of wilfully damaging a car, and of stealing a travelling rug and stealing three blankets.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 250, 30 July 1940, Page 3
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110CAR CONVERSION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 250, 30 July 1940, Page 3
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