Another Nine Months For Kora and Hika: Motor Car Conversion

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 6, 11 October 1948, Page 5

Another Nine Months For Kora and Hika: Motor Car Conversion

Charged with unlawfully converting a motor car valued at £4OO, the property of Peter Samuel Thomson, two labourers, Andy Hika, aged 21, and Ben Richard Kora, aged 25, pleaded guilty before Mr J. K. Luxford, S.M., at Auckland. Acting-Detective Price said complainant left his car locked in Lome Street at 7.30 p.m. on September 10, and when he returned later in the evening it had gone. The car was found over a bank near Whakatane next morning by the Whakatane police. It had been damaged to the extent of £9O. Accused admitted taking turns at driving it from Auckland during the night. Hika fell -asleep at the wheel and the car went over the bank. A clock and a pair of glpves were missing from the car, but the accused denied knowledge of them. Kora was at present serving a prison sentence of 10 months and Hika one of eight months for offences at Whakatane. The magistrate sentenced each accused to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour, to be served from the time of expiration of their present sentences.