CONVERTED VEHICLES
Three Seamen Fined (N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 15. It visiting seamen persisted in converting vehicles at New Plymouth, prison sentences would be imposed, Mr A. W. Yortt, S.M, warned in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth, today. Sentencing three English seamen from the Waipawa on vehicle conversion charges, the Magistrate said seamen had a habit of converting vehicles at the port to take them to the city and then of converting vehicles in the city to take them back to tire port. John Christopher Arnold, aged 19, Maurice Roy Barson, aged 20, and David James Butler, aged 18, all of England. were jointly charged with converting a car valued at £3OO, the property of Edmund Burton, at New Plymouth, on Wednesday. They were fined £2O each. Butler and Arnold were also jointly charged with converting a pick-up truck, valued at £250, the property of William Victor Hickling, at New Plymouth today They were fined £2O each on this charge.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30212, 17 August 1963, Page 16
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