JOY-RIDERS WARNED.
A MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT. ■Per Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The habit of using other people’s motor cars has becomo rather common recently in and around Christchurch, but-the sentence imposed by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., ,on two men at- the Magistrate’s Court, Rangiora, to-day, should help to restrain future joy-riders. The two men charged were Reginald Pearce and Joseph Mortland. Pearce was fined £5 and costs and Mortland was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. \ Tile magistrate said the offence of taking cars was becoming too common. The only way to stop those offences was to impose such a penalty as to create fear among the community.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 8
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