HEARING OF CHARGES
CAR CONVERSION CASES (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. Dec. 11. Charges of car conversion and intoxication in charge of cars should be heard always by magistrates and never, as sometimes happened, by justices of the peace, in the opinion of the executive of the South Island Motor Union. The executive last night decided to suggest to the North Island Motor Union that the Minister of Justice be approached to have the law amended to this effect. The executive bad received letters about the treatment of such cases from the Canterbury. Marlborough, Otago and North Otago automobile associations.
The commissioner of police, Mr. J. Cummings, in a letter, advised that his district officers had been fold to press for more severe penalties in car conversion cases.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 6
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