CAR CONVERTED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 35, 21 November 1950, Page 2

CAR CONVERTED

THREE YOUNG MEN CAUGHT (P.A.) WANGANUI, This Day. Three car converters picked, the wrong car last night when -they took a powerful English £9OO sports model 1 owned by Mr jS. A. Brewer, organiser of the Wanganui Motor Racing Club, while he was attending a meeting of the club. The police had been warned about the activities of. the three, and the owner was told the car was missing soon after it was driven away. Members of the club immediately co-operated with the police in organising a fast mobile search, which radiated from the city, and Transport Department facilities and inspectors were brought into the picture also. Two members of the Motor Racing Club left their homes in Waverley, coming toward Wanganui, and they recognised the missing car as it was travelling north. Later they caught up with it when it turned at a side road and accompanied it back to Wanganui, and to the police station. This morning the three young men, two shearers and a labourer, were given one month’s imprisonment by Mr S. S. Preston, S.M., who said that probation and fines would apparently not ston this sort of thing. All three pleaded guilty. Security for appeal was fixed at £lO 10s in each case