CAR CONVERTED
HUSBAND AND WIFE. ATTEMPT TO REACH RELATIVES. (Per United Press Association.) Hawcra, August 17. A story that, when destitute and in search of a place for himself and his wife to sleep, he succumbed to temptation, taking the car in an endeavour to reach relations in Hamilton, was told lay Allan James Carter, aged 22, in the Court when he and his wife, Margaret Patience Carter, aged 19, were charged with converting at Wellington on August 8 a car belonging to Knight McCartney. The man was also charged with the theft of five gallons of petrol which he secured without payment from a bowser station at Kai Iwi. Both pleaded guilty. The police said that no doubt the pair were absolutely penniless. Carter was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, and his wife was convicted and discharged.
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Southland Times, Issue 22097, 18 August 1933, Page 7
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138CAR CONVERTED Southland Times, Issue 22097, 18 August 1933, Page 7
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