Converted Dinghy
After a party on the night of . August 8, Richard McGill and Leonard Thomas Dolan decided to take . a short cut home by crossing the river from Whakatane to the Board Mill in a dinghy. They took Mr Athol Butcher’s dinghy for the purpose. It cost them, each a £3 fine, with costs 10/-, when they pleaded . -guilty to a conversion charge. Constable Julian told the Court “they had fallen out of the boat, lost a bicycle had with- them, and rwere lucky *not to have been drown-•-ed. John T. Hawaho was fined £3, • costs 10/-, for conversion of a bicycle. He pleaded guilty.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 5
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106Converted Dinghy Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 5
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