CHARGES AT HAWERA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 9

CHARGES AT HAWERA

Per Press Association. H AAV ERA, Dec. 3. A youtli named llangf Aka was sentenced to-day to two months’ gaol for conversion of a motor car and ordered to pay £5 damages. The accused admitted having taken the car from a street parking place on the evening of November 21, then driving to Eltham, where lie 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. The accused was the sixth to be punished. Herbert Porter and Samuel Werner, jointly charged, pleaded guilty to four counts involving theft of car equipment and tools, clothing and watches, of a total value of £25, from residences in outlying country centres, which they visited between April and October as v 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. In sentencing each accused to 12 months’ reformative detention the Magistrate ordered the return of the stolen property.