CAR CONVERSION
TWO MEN GAOLED By Telegraph —Press Association WELLINGTON, March 29 On a charge of the unlawful con-version-bf a car valued at £45, William Alexander Miller, aged 27, a casing worker, and Gerald Garfield Thoms, aged 28, a motor-driver, were sentenced to six months’ gaol to-day. The car was stated to have been left standing in Murphy Street, for some time, and was got going by the accused, and then abandoned in Tinakori Road when they heard that a broadcast message had been sent out. Against Thoms was also a charge of the theft of 12 gallons of petrol. Thoms said he was sober when driving the car, and Miller claimed it was their drunkenness and silliness that had made them do it.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21308, 30 March 1939, Page 4
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124CAR CONVERSION Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21308, 30 March 1939, Page 4
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