CYCLES CONVERTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 8

CYCLES CONVERTED.

YOUTH SOLVES PROBLEM. GETTING HOME AFTER PICTURES. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. A novel method of transport was described in the Police Court to-day, when Ronald M. Gilroy (18) appeared for sentence for converting to his owa uee, though not so as to be guilty of theft, three push bicycles. . A detective said accused had ; been in the habit of coming into town on. Friday evenings either by train or bus, and going to the pictures, but as he had no means of getting home afterwards he had adopted the course of helping himself to cycles and then abandoning them! at a flour mill at Sentry Hill. Four cycles had been taken, and the owners had been found for tKree. "You did a* foolish thing," said the magistrate 111 admitting Gilroy to probation for eighteen months, and ordering payment of 10/6. He also made it a condition that Gilroy niust .not visit the town for three months, nor a picture entertainment or a dance more than once a week. '