CAR CONVERSION
MAN AND WIFE . .{RE CONVICTED
PITIFUL TALE IN COURT.
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HAWERA, August 17. The story that,, when (deetitute, Land in search of i» place ‘for himself and his wife to sleep in, he to ’temptation in 'taking' car to fin endeavour to reach relations in Hamilton, wa s told by Allan James Carter, : ’aged 22, in the Court, when he and his wife, Margaret Patience Carter, aged 19, were charged'-with converting' c -at Wellington,, on August 8, a oaf., bed longing to Knight McCartney.
The- man w a s''al&o’-charged uvith the theft of five gallons ■of benzinefv which he ‘ secured without -payment from a bowiser station at Kaiiwi.
- , Bo ; th pleaded guilty. The police said that no doubt the pair were -absolutely penniless.
Carter was sentenced to' two months’ imprisonment, and , his wife Was .c™viated and'discharged; ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1933, Page 5
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141CAR CONVERSION Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1933, Page 5
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