Maori Who Converted Truck Sent To Gaol
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AUCKLAND, Aug. 1. Despite the penalties imposed the con version of motor vehicles was not -de--creasing, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., said today when sentencing a Maori, Peia, Teia, aged 23, a railway fireman, to gaol foT six monthst for converting a truck valued at £500. A constable said that hearing an engine roaring, he found the truck jammed against a pole in a side street off Karangahape Road. Aceused said the driver was "round the eorner. " When taken to the police station aceused broke away but was reeaptured, ,He tbfiii admitted the offeuce,
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1949, Page 3
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