CAR CONVERSION
I CASE UNDER NEW LAW. TWO MONTHB’ IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. In the first case brought locally under the amended legislation of last session dealing with the conversion of motor cars, John Robert Taylor, a labourer, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by Mr J. Stout, S.M., on a charge of unlawfully converting a car. A detective said accused went to a garage with a letter purporting to have been written by his brother, in which the latter promised to buy a car on accused’s behalf. Accused had been given a car on trial, to be returned that night, but had gone to Wanganui and stayed the night there.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19351219.2.100
Bibliographic details
Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19763, 19 December 1935, Page 14
Word Count
114CAR CONVERSION Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19763, 19 December 1935, Page 14
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.