BREEDING CRIMINALS
LENIENT PENALTIES A! OTORI STS ’ COM PLAINT (Per Press Association.) DUNK DIN, this day. "If the Government won’t wake up and do the right thing about car conversions. motorists will have to take the law into their own hands, even it they are imprisoned for it,” said Mr. F. \Y. Johnston, president ot the youth Island Motor l nion, at tin* annual meeting of the Otago Motor Club.
Personally, he was prepared to do this and inflict his own punishment if the need arose. He was now convinced that conversion, or ear stealing, should be an indictable offence. Another speaker said tbo Government, by its light penalties, was breeding a. race of young criminals.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 6
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