MOTOR-CYCLE BLAMED
FOR YOUNG MAN’S DOWNFALL I United Press Association) WELLINGTON. This Day A motor cycle was ascribed as the cause of the lapse committed by Henry John Westbrooke. a clerk, aged 21, who appeared before Mr J. H. Luxford, S M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day for sentence on lour charges of theft from lh« Wellington Woollen Company. Westbrooke was admitted to probation by the Magistrate. "It will be a special condition, during the period of probation, which I shall fix at two years, that you refrain from using a motor cycle, which has been the cause of your downfall.” said the Magistrate, “and as soon as you forget about motor cycles and get down to the saving of money to make provision, as you get on. for your own home, the better it will be for you." Westbrooke was ordered to make restitution of the amount of £4l 19s 9d, the amount involved in tlie charges.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 4
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