Car Conversion Prosecutions Total 1000 Yearly
v WELLINGTON, May 25. Figur.es uver\ the last six years showed that there Avere 1000 nrdifeeutihn^ each fHr for, the cOfcVersion df hiOtOr-Cdt's iii New Zeaiahfl, said the Chief Justice, Sir Ilumphrev O'Leary, in the Supreme jourt today., . > ) . His HOiioiir ttiade this eoffniieiit in itripositig a setttettce Of twO years' ref of mative deteiitibh dh eaeh of three charges of conversion, ttte sentences to be conourrent, on Reginald McRobb Dandy Osbotne, aged 25, a clerk, whb appeared for sehtehce after pleadittg giiilty irt the Lower court. His Honour added that during the last Christmas and New Year hohddys cars had been converted at the rate of teh daily. Doctofs aiid athets wefe seriously incoiiveiiiirteed by the 10SS of their cars and he hoped that the sentence would prove a deterrent to others.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1949, Page 5
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