PROBATION GRANTED
CAR CONVERSION ATTEMPT
THEFT OF KEYS
<r-.ii- Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
“There is a great deal of difficulty in these cases because when there is a definite evil, as there is at the present time in regard to car conversion, it is very difficult to do other than to sentence any offender found guilty to a term of imprisonment,” said the magistrate in the Police Court to-day. “However, in the administration of the law, there is no hard and fast rule, and every case must be considered on its merits. In your case, the report of the probation officer is such that it would be wrong at this stage to send you to prison. The whole circumstances surrounding your case seem to be the perverted outlook of a person under the influence of liquor, rather than a person deliberately setting out to convert a motor vehicle.”
The magistrate admitted to two years’ probation William John Aekins, aged 25, a labourer, who was charged with attempted conversion of a car and also with the theft of a bunch of keys.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19915, 18 April 1939, Page 6
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182PROBATION GRANTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19915, 18 April 1939, Page 6
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