POLICE PATROL CAR
First Mention In Court
(PA.) WELLINGTON, January 5. The police patrol car introduced by the new Commissioner of Police two months ago, which keeps constant touch all night and every night with the various police stations in Wellington, got its first mention in Court today. Its suspicions had been aroused early this, morning by a car with a flat tyre, and when this car stopped by the railway station, the patrol also stopped and asked , a few questions. The car was thus recovered, before even a complaint had been lodged, and incidentally it was the third the patrol has recovered
before the owner knew of his loss. The case today concerned a soldier, Harold Eugene Matheson, aged-24, who was charged with unlawful conversion. The accused, it was stated, had picked up a male friend and they had driven about the ctiy for some time. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, and placed in charge of the military. The amount of the damage, £7, is to be deducted from his military pay.
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Southland Times, Issue 25564, 6 January 1945, Page 6
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182POLICE PATROL CAR Southland Times, Issue 25564, 6 January 1945, Page 6
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