Unlawfully Converted His Employer’s Truck
' Denny August Pei, aged 18, pleaded guilty at the Police Court, Whakatane, on Monday, to having unlawfully converted to his own use a truck worth £SOO and owned by his employer, Mr W. H. Spanhake, a Waimana farmer. Messrs L. D. Lovelock and I. B. Hubbard, J’s.P., convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. The seriousness of the offence was sternly pointed out to Pei from the Bench and he was warned that if he got into any more trouble he would be sternly dealt with. Constable R. F. Julian told the Court that after Mr Spanhake had complained to the Police that his truck was missing on August 14 and 15 it was found at Ruatoki in Pei’s possession. Asked for his story, Pei said his father had been ill and he took the to go home to Ruatoki to see him.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 86, 25 August 1948, Page 5
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157Unlawfully Converted His Employer’s Truck Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 86, 25 August 1948, Page 5
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