CONVERSION OF CARS
| YOUTHS BEFORE THE COURT COURT [United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. j Again stressing the gravity of the offence of car conversion. Mr Stout. S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. sentenced five youths who pleaded guilty to the offence to detention in a Borstal institution for terms one one. two and three years. They were Harris Swatton (18) and Frank James Hitchens (18), each of whom are to be detained in a Borstal institution for one year: Frank Ronald Anzac Ross (18), and Dennis Grennell (17). two years; and Brian Desmond Larsen (18), three years. The Magistrate said the offence as getting out of hand, and any consideration the Court would like to give to individuals must now be put aside. Owners of cars and the public must be protected and deterrent sentences must be inflicted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 18 November 1940, Page 6
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