PROBATION GRANTED
REMARKS FROM BENCH. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 18. “There is a great deal of difficulty in these cases, because when there is a definite evil, as there is at the present time in regard to car conversion, it is very difficult to do other than sentence any offender found guilty to a term of imprisonment. However, in the administration of the law there is no hard and fast rule, and every ease will be considered on its merits. “In your ease the report of the probation officer is such that it would be wrong at this stage to send von to prison. The whole of the circumstances surrounding your case seem to be the perverted outlook of a person under the influence of liquor rather than a person deliberately setting out to convert a motor vehicle.” With these remarks the Magistrate (Mr J. TT. Lux ford) admitted to two years’ probation William John Aekins. aged 25, a labourer, charged with attempted car conversion, also the theft of a bunch of keys.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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174PROBATION GRANTED Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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