WARNING TO YOUTHS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 268, 13 November 1945, Page 6

WARNING TO YOUTHS

CCi.WERSION OF CYCLES “These conversions of cycles and other property are far too frequent; >ou young fellows seem to have no sense of rights of property,” said Mr. J. 11. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, Wanganui, yesterday, after a youth, Raymond Allan Watson, aged 18, had admitted unlawfully converting a cycle valued at £B, the property of Joseph Stone, at Palmerston North on November 5. Warning accused that he would be imprisoned if he came before the Court again lor dishonesty, the magistrate placed him on probation for 12 months. Detective-Sergeant J. K. Robertson told the Court that accused lef. Wanganui on November 1 with two other young men in a rental car, and after visiting Paekakariki and Otaki, arrived back in Palmerston North short of money. As lie had to return to Wanganui for his work, he took the cycle from a flat in Palmerston North and rode it as far as the Airport Road 1 urn-off,-Wanganui, where he left it in some lupin. When interviewed later by Detective-Sergeant H. A. Hay and Constable C. Dudley, accused took them over Io the Airpor Road and the cycle was recovered intact. Accused had been before the Court previously. In reply Io the magistrate, accused said his parents were living in Wellington. He had been on his own s. m e he was 14 years of age.