The habit of using other people’s motor cars has become rather common recently in and around Christchurch, but the sentence imposed by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., on two men at the Magistrate’s Court, Rangiora. yesterday should help to restrain future joy-riders. The two men charged wore Reginald Pearce and Joseph Mortland. Pearce was fined £5 and costs and' Mortland was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. The magistrate said that the offence of taking cars was becoming too common. The only way to stop these offences was to impose such a penalty as to create a' fear among the community. WADE’S-WORM PIGS eradicate worm? of all descriptions., Pleasant, sure, and certain.—[Advt.j
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Evening Star, Issue 18335, 24 July 1923, Page 9
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110Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 18335, 24 July 1923, Page 9
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