CONVERSION CHARGES
Launch And Motor-car
By Telegraph—Press Association.
AUCKLAND, September 26. John Charles Allen Olsen, aged 23, seaman, in the Magistrates’ Court today pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully converting at Auckland in June, 1938, the launch Kiritia, valued at £l2OO, the property of Winstones Ltd., and at Nelson on September 11 last a motor-ear valued at £3OO belonging to Leo Patrick O'Connor. The police said that Olsen was permitted to live aboard the launch, which was tied up at the wharf. After a dance there was a party of men and girls aboard. Beer was drunk. Later Olsen took the launch out on the harbour without permission or the necessary certili’eate. On September 11 he took a ear at Nelson and drove 103 miles, ran out of benzine and abandoned it. “He has not been in trouble before but. has been running a bit wild,” said Detec-tive-Sergeant McHugh. Defending counsel, Mr. Noble, said the launch conversion was only a technical offence. Olsen steered it only a couple of hundred yards in a spirit of bravado. On the first charge Olsen was fined £3 and on the second charge was admitted to probation for one year and ordered to pay £2 expenses to the owner of the ear.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 7
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209CONVERSION CHARGES Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 7
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