RETENTION OF HIRED CAR
Conversion Charge Dismissed (N.Z Press Association) HAMILTON, April 4. According to a ruling given by Mr L. M. Inglis. S.M, a person who retains a rental car after the date it is due to be returned is not guilty of the unlawful conversion of the vehicle Tangi Fox, aged 23, appeared before him in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court charged with unlawfully converting a car valued at £5OO. the property of Phillips Brothers, Tauranga. Fox pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant T. J. Kyle said that Fox rented the car and retained it for five days after the period of rental had expired. The Magistrate asked how that could be conversion. Fox had received the ear by right. The matter was a civil one, he said. These rental car people, he added, could not come to the criminal Court for redress in such circumstances. The Magistrate directed Fox to plead nof guilty, and dismissed the information.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29480, 5 April 1961, Page 9
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