CAR-LIFTER SENT TO GAOL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2588, 4 December 1931, Page 5

CAR-LIFTER SENT TO GAOL

FOR TWO MONTHS 2i GASES IN HAW ERA Per Press Association Hawera, December 3. A Maori you h. Rn.ngi Aka, was senteilc d to-day to two months’ gaol for the, c-onvorsou of a motor and was ordered to pay £5 damages. Defendant admitted having taken a car from a street parking place 011 the evening of November 21 and then driving to Elthani whore lie struck the footpath kerbing in trying to turn. Sergeant Henry said since January there had been 21 eases of unauthorised removal of cars in Hawera. Defendant was the sixth to be punished. “MECHANICS” TRAIL OF THEFTS Herbert Porter arid Samuel Werner, jointly charged, pleaded guilty on four charges involving theft of car equipment, tools, clothing and watches of a total value .of £25 from residences in outlying country centre? which were visited. between April and October a,s mechanics repairing milking machines. Porter also admitted tlie theft of a magneto arid £5 at Kapuni and a. watch and £lO IQs at Marton. In sentencing each to 12 months’ reformative detention, tlie Magistrate ordered tlie i-i 1 urn of tbo stolen property.