MAN IN MILITARY CAMP GIVEN A CHANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 9

MAN IN MILITARY CAMP GIVEN A CHANCE

CONVERSION OF MOTOR-CAR TO COME UP FOR SENTENCE IF CALLED UPON A military trainee, Harold Wagstaff. who pleaded guilty before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., at Wanganui yesterday, to converting a motor-car to his own use, was given a chance. He was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years and to make good half the damage to the car. John Ernest Reardon, who was implicated in the conversion, and for whom Mr. V. B. Willis appeared, was dealt with in the same way. “I do not want it to be thought that these cases of conversion of motorcars are lightly dealt with,” said His Worship, imposing sentence. “In most cases I think that imprisonment should be imposed. In this case a young man has enlisted and his been in camp two months and may make good if given an opportunity.” Sergeant J. V. Cosgrave, who appeared for the police, stated that on October 1, Wagstaff and Reardon were in Fordell and, seeing the car outside a shop, went for a ride to Deniair Camp and ran the car into a ditch. The two were ordered to share half the costs, 17s, bvirreen them, and Wagstaff was ordered to pay witness’ expenses, 15s 6d.