VAN CONVERTED

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21042, 19 February 1940, Page 8

VAN CONVERTED

PERMANENT FORCE MEN DRIVER FOUND INTOXICATED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday Two permanent force artillerymen, James Kitchener Miller, aged 24, and Maurice Walter Hessey, aged 20, were charged in the Police Court with unlawfully converting a motorvan. Miller was further charged with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of the van in Swanson Street. Counsel said the facts were admitted.

A constable gave evidence that at 9.15 on Thursday evening last the van was driven down Queen Street at about 35 miles an hour and swerved into Swanson Street. Both men alighted. Miller denied having driven the van, and Hessey did not seem to understand what witness was saying. At the police station Miller was certified by a doctor as unfit to drive a motor vehicle. He gave his name as Reid. A lieutenant in charge of the two men told the magistrate their character was regarded as fair. They are on probation for a year. The magistrate convicted both on the charge of conversion and ordered them to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. Miller was fined £2O and was disqualified from driving for 12 months on the intoxication charge.