MOTORIST IN TROUBLE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 7

MOTORIST IN TROUBLE.

WRONG NUMBER PLATES. ARRESTED IN CENTRAL OTAGO. (Special to Dailt Times.) WELLINGTON, January 26. Piaping the number plates of a motor car on another which he was trying wi(h a view to purchasing it, brought Frederick Owen Murch, a gardener and butcher, aged 18, before Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Sub-inspector Lopdell said that the accused came in contact with another young man, named Macfarlanc, at Dunedin in October. Macfarlanc told him that he knew an old lady who wished to sell a motor car and introduced the defendant to her. They looked at the car, and when they suggested a trial run they were told that the car had. not been registered. They then told the woman that they would just take the car round to another garage. Several days later the two lads were detained in Central Otago for having the car in their possession. The car was then fitted with the number plates be-/ longyig to another car. The woman who owned the, car was communicated with and admitted that she had given the lads permission to drive the car, but not to -go “ gallivanting about the country in it. The magistrate fined the defendant fl and ordered him to pay costs and police expenses.