CAR OWNERSHIP
AN UNCOMPLETED SALE SEQUEL HEARD IN COURT A general mix up in the ownership of a car, a state of affairs which arose as a result of two persons exchanging vehicles which did not actually belong to them, led to a married man now residing in the South Island, being charged at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with obtaining a car and £lO in cash by fraudulently representing that his car. which he gave in exchange, and which he was paying for on the hire purchase system was his own property. Senior-Sergeant Lopdell said that when accused made the deal he told the other party that the car was his, when actually he still had another £5 to pay to complete the purchase price of £3O Accused had gone away and Mr R. A. Burnett had seized the car under his agreement. Mr A. D. Brodie for accused, stated that the £5 had since been paid. Accused had met with hard luck and had not been able to make the final payment as soon as he had intended. The Magistrate (Mr J. G. L. Hewitt): Everything is on paper these days, and I don’t think accused set out to commit a crime. In view of the fact that accused had had to attend from a distance and had been put to considerable inconvenience, a conviction was entered, accused to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19914, 9 August 1927, Page 9
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240CAR OWNERSHIP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19914, 9 August 1927, Page 9
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