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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 12

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motor cycle conversion.

YOUNG MAN FOR SENTENCE,

Arrested last night on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor cycle, valued at £50, the property of Skeates and White. Ltd., Albert Charles Joass, aged 20, a fish cleaner, made his appearance before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court this morning.

Mr. A. Hall Skelton appeared for Joass, who pleaded guilty.

Sub-Inspector Fox said the motor cycle was left in the passage way of Skeates and White, Ltd., Fort Street at 5 oclock yesterday afternoon. It was missed at 8 p.m. and shortly afterwards a foreman employed by the firm foundaccused trying to start it in Gore Street. When asked by the foreman what he was doing with the machine, Joass told him that it was "none of his business." "He tried to get away when he found out that tlie police had been sent for," said the sub-inspector, "but he was detained until Constable Gillespie arrived and arrested him. He had been drinking. Nothing previously is known against him." "This young man was very drunk and he did not realise what he had done until he sobered up .later," said Mr. Skelton. "He has a motor cvcle of his own." Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., remanded Joass in custody for sentence until Tuesday, so that a resort might be obtained from the probation officer.