DAMAGE TO TRUCK
Man To Pay £54 Restitution
( (N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE. Sept. 19. “Your curiosity will cost you .dearly.” Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., told Philip Teare. aged 24. a farmhand, who pleaded guilty today to a charge of unlawfully inter! fering with a £3500 truck, the property of Charles William Ireland, at Otokp, on September 17. The accused was fined £3 and was ordered to make restitution of £54 for damage to the truck. Senior-Sergeant J. G. B. Rossiter, said the truck owner, a bridge contractor, had parked his vehicle on a slight incline near the site of the new Otoko bridge. The accused had climbed ’into the vehicle and shifted brakes and the gears. He had then left the vehicle which had run off down the incline, damaging a special type of tyre, which could , not be obtained in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 6
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144DAMAGE TO TRUCK Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 6
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