“BORROWED” CARS
ACTION IN BRITAIN SEVERE PENALTIES URGED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received September 21, 3 p.m.) LONDON, September 20. Borrowing a motor-car without permission will become a punishable offence if the recommendation of the council of the Magistrates’ Association is adopted by the Government. This is the outcome of a prolonged controversy over the weakness of the law, which latterly has been responsible for a tremendous increase in the number of -cars taken by joy-riders, who abandoned them, frequently in a damaged condition:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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90“BORROWED” CARS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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