CAR CONVERSION
MAORI YOUTH SENTENCED. CHARGES AT HAWEBA. Hawera, Dec. 3. A Maori youth, Rangi Aka, was sentenced to-day to two months’ gaol for the conversion of a motor car and was ordered to pay £5 damages. The defendant admitted having taken the car from the street parking place on the evening of November 21, then driving to Eltham, where ho struck the footpath kerbing in trying to turn. Sergeant Henry said that since January there had been 21 cases of unauthorised removal of cars in Hawera. and defendant was the sixth to be punished. Herbert Porter and Samuel Werner, jointly charged, pleaded guilty on four counts involving the theft of a ear equipment and tools, clothing and watches, to the total value of £25, from residences in outlying country centres, which they visited between April and October as mechanics repairing milking machines. Porter also admitted the theft of a magneto valued at £5 at Kapuni, and a watch valued at £lO 10s at Marton. Tn sentencing each to 12 months’ reformative detention, the Magistrate ordered the return of the stolen property.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 301, 4 December 1931, Page 8
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182CAR CONVERSION Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 301, 4 December 1931, Page 8
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