CONVERSION OF TRUCK
-r LABOURER REMANDED -WANTED TO BE LOCKED UP" "This man said he was tired of working for small wages and wanted to be locked up," said Sub-Inspector Fox in the Police Court yesterday, when a labourer, Luis Edwards, aged 32, appeared before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor-truck, the property of Sing On. Accused pleaded guilty. Mr. Fox said that on Sunday evening accused was accosted by a traffic officer on the Great South Road. Stating that he thought he had driven far enough, he told the officer that he had taken the truck from his Chinese employer at Otahuhu. In December last he had been fined £5, disqualified from driving a motor vehicle for five years and ordered to take out a prohibition order for being in charge of a motor vehicle while in a state of intoxication. The truck, which he had taken on Sunda.v; was not damaged in any way. On tho application of Mr. Fox, accused was remanded to appear on Monday so that further inquiries might be made by the
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23129, 30 August 1938, Page 16
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