CHARGES OF UNLAWFUL CONVERSION OF CARS
(United Press Association)
NELSON, April 30.
A youth, aged 17, today answered 25 charges of unlawful conversion of cars taken for joyriding and abandoned in the city. The Magistrate said that he realized that the conversion of cars seemed to become a mania. Something must be done to bring the accused under control. The accused was ordered to be detained in the Borstal Institution for two years.
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Southland Times, Issue 24114, 1 May 1940, Page 8
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