“NO HARD AND FAST RULE”
! DEALING WITH CAR CONVERSION OFFENCES i United Pi-ww Asaoumt iob’ WELLINGTON, This Day. ; ‘There is a great deal of difficulty in ; these cases because when there is definite evil, as there is at the present I 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 case must be considered on its merits. “In your case the report of the Probation Officer is such that it would be wrong at this stage to send you to prison. The whole circumstances surrounding your case seem to be the perverted outlook of a person under the influence of liquor, rather than of a person deliberately setting out to convert a motor vehicle.” With these remarks the Magistrate. Mr Luxford. admitted to two years’ probation. William John Aekins, aged 25, labourer, charged with attempted car conversion and also with the theft of a bunch of keys.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 April 1939, Page 6
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