TWO NATIVES SENT TO GAOL
— I -v CONVERSION OF TRIIOK Pleading guilty to the unlawfui xmversion of a motor truck, the property of Stewart Bartholomew, Iwo Natives were convictcd and lentenc.ed to four months' imprisohment by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M.. in the Levin Court yesterday. They were Uma Hapeta and Tahu Royal Tamihana. Sergeant W. Grainger tolcl thc court that on March 25 last tiigt Bartholomew had given both the accused, along with another Native, a lift to Levin. In the course of the; journey he told them that he wasj leaving the truck in Levin while he! went to Otaki. Bartholomew sub- i '.equcntly parked the vehi'cle in ' Levin. The accused had gone to; Lhe pictures, and aftPrwards hacfi taken the truck ancl driven it inj turn around Levin. At 12.40 a.m. t Text mbrning they had coilided ! with an electric power pnle, causmgj lonsiderable clamago to the truck,' estimated at £115. | Bis Worship commented upoh the ; gravity of unlawfui conversion of; cars, and stated that the present, pfevalenee of the habit necessitated ; stern repreSSive measures. Oh chiLrges of drivihg the vehicle ; without a driver's license each of the accused was eonvicted ahd discharged. |
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 June 1946, Page 4
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