POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20976, 12 September 1931, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CONVERSION OF MOTOR-CAR. PROBATION FOR TWO YEARS. A labourer, John Leggatt Meek, aged 18, was placed on probation for two years by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.* in the Police Court yesterday for unlawfully converting a motor-car to his own use on September 2. The vehicle was the property of Martin Peter Lynch, taxidriver, and was valued at £IBO. Meek was convicted and discharged on a count of being intoxicated in charge of a car in Lincoln Road, Henderson.

For the accused, Mr. Noble said one of Lynch's friends had asked Meek to drive him home from a football match The car was damaged. The police evidence was that Lynch had given no one authority to move the vehicle. The probation officer, Mr. W. J. Campbell, expressed the view that Meek should not be required to pay the full amount of the damage, as he was accom panied by Lynch's friend, and Mr. Hunt ordered Meek to pay £7. half of the sum involved.

Gerald Robert Groom, an unemployed youth, pleaded guilty to two charges of false pretences, each involving the 6um of 2s 6d. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said Groom was an amateur wrestler. As such he had a pass entitling him to free ad mittance to the Town Hall. In spite of this, he had received a pass-out check on one occasion and had sold it to a young man in Grey's Avenue for 2s 6d. Groom went inside the hall again, but could not obtain a check for another man.

The magistrate convicted accused and ordered him to pay costs, amounting to £2 Bs, seven days being allowed in which to find the money.