IN RENTAL CAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 5

IN RENTAL CAR

AN EXTENDED TRIP

Remarking that it was not the usual case of conversion, Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., convicted D'Arcy Baden Lobb, aged 21, and ordered him to come up Cor sentence if called upon within six months when he pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday to a charge of unlawful conversion of a rental car and also to the unlawful purchase of oil fuel. According to the police evidence, the accused was associated = with another man, who was ' the prime . mover, in taking a rental car, hired, for a trip to Levin, on a trip to New Plymouth. They had with them- some servicemen whom they picked up at New Plymouth and who had put sixteen gallons of petrol into the car. Mr. C. H. Ham submitted that Lobb had' committed purely technical offences and had had no direct part in the affair. He had understood that the ser-, vicemen had a right to an allowance of petrol when on leave. • "I have no sympathy, with the rental ■ car business these days when every- ; : body else is cut down for petrol,'! said " the Magistrate. ''People. seem ■ to- ( get more petrol if they get- a rental car than if they have their own car, even if they only want to go joy-riding.? On the second charge the defendant' was fined £5. . ...