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MOTOR CAR CONVERSION By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, January 22. For an unusual sort of car conversion, a young married man, Justin Earl Edmond Constable, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. A visitor who had parked outside the Leviathan Hotel found accused in the driver’s seat. He said he was going to drive to Timaru, and when informed of the car’s ownership jumped into the rear seat, saying, “you drive me to Timaru. I’ll shoot you if you don’t.” As he said this he was poking his fist into the car owner’s back.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21559, 23 January 1940, Page 3
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