LIQUOR BLAMED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 7

LIQUOR BLAMED

LABOURER'S CONVERSION PROBATION GRANTED I Per Pres* rvMoOvlation.) ’ WELLINGTON, April 18. "There is a great deal of difficult in these cases oecause when there a definite evil, as there is al th present time in regard to car convei I sion, it is very difficult to do othi i than sentence any offender four I guilty to a term of imprisonment. “However, in lhe administration < I the law there is no hard and fa I rule and every case should be coi I sidered on its merits. In your ca: the report of the probation officer ! such that it would be wrong at th ' stage to send you to prison. II whole circumstances surroundu your case seem to be the pervert, outlook of a person under the ii ■ fluence of liquor rather than a pe son deliberately 'setting out to coi vert a motor vehicle.” With these remarks the magistral Mr. J. L. Hewitt, admitted to tv years’ probation, William Jot Aekins, aged 25, labourer, chargi with attempted car conversion ai also with the theft of a buncn ; keys.