MOTOR-CAR CONVERTED
RELIEF WORKER'S OFFENCE VEHICLE STRIKES WALL On a charge of converting to his own use a motor-car at Devonport on the evening of September 15, Edward Rudolph Angus Wilson, a relief worker, appeared in the Police Court 'yesterday and admitted the offence. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said that the owner of the car had left the vehicle outside a picture theatre at Devonport, and when she returned after the performance the car was damaged. Wilson, who had been drinking, had got in the car, but had not been able to drive it correctly, the vehicle jumping forward across the footpath into a wall. He was married, with two children, and was a relief worker. " The Devonport police speak well of Wilson, as does his foreman," added Mr. Kelly. . , After Wilson had slated that he had paid for the damage and was willing to take out a proh : bition order, the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence if called on within six months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21314, 15 October 1932, Page 14
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