CONVERSION OF CAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22473, 7 January 1943, Page 2

CONVERSION OF CAR

Young Man Fined

“These offences must be checked as they are difficult to detect.” said Mr H. Morgan, S.M., at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday in convicting and imposing a fine of £l2 and costs on William Raymond Bilson, aged 19. on a charge of unlawfully converting a car valued at £l5O, the property of Alfred Mason. Senior-Sergeant S. King said that the accused had taken the car on Christmas Eve from the stand near the Railway Station and driven it out to Gleniti and returned it about midnight. No damage was done and only one gallon of petrol was used. The accused: I do not remember taking the car. The Magistrate: That only aggravates the offence. Only your age deters me from sending you to prison. Bilson, who was ordered to pay the fine at the rate of £1 a week, was placed under the supervision of the Probation Officer until the line and costs were paid. “There have been too many of these offences.” said Mr Morgan when John Francis Bedford, who pleaded guilty, was fined £2 It) - and costs on a charge of casting offensive matter in Stafford Street on Boxing Day. Senior-Sergeant King said that Bedford had given a false name when questioned by the police. Bedford had said that he was on his way to the railway station.