WRONG NUMBERS ON CAR
Placing the number plates of a mo-tor-car on another which he was toying with a view to purchasing it, brought Frederick Owen Murch, a gardener and butcher, aged IS, before Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Sub-Inspector Lopdell said that th» accused came in contact with, another young man named MacFarlane- at Dunedin in October. MacFarlane told him that he knew an old lady who wisb«d to sell a motor-car, and introduced fK* defendant to her. They looked at tis* car, and when they suggested a tri^~ run they were told that the car b-iG not been registered. They then told the lady that they would just take the car round to another garage. Several days later the two'lads were detained in Central Otago for having the car in their possession. The- car was then fitted with the number plates belonging to another car. The lady who owned the car was communicated with, and admitted that she had given the lads permission to drive the car, but not to sj'o "gallivanting about the country ia it."
The Magistrate fined the defendant £1 and ordered him to pay cost' "id police expenses.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 3
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199WRONG NUMBERS ON CAR Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 3
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