TYRE STOLEN
CAR PARKED AT MANGAITI YOUNG MEN BEFORE COURT Appearing before Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., in the Te Aroha Court on Thursday, Ernest Albert Durbin and Leonard Albert Brown pleaded guilty to stealing a motor car wheel compfete with, tyre and tube and a headlight from R. L. Nattrass. It was stated that Mr Nattrass, who is manager of the Mangaiti Flaxmill, was in the habit of parking his car close to the mill, and on going to it on April 11 found a wheel had been removed. He notified the police who examined the car, and a day or so later he found that a headlight had been removed while the car was again parked in its customary place. The police said that numerous complaints of this type of offence had. been received and it was one which was easy to commit and hard to detect.
Defendants elected summary jurisdiction, and fines of £2 10s each on each charge were imposed.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3266, 21 May 1943, Page 5
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164TYRE STOLEN Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3266, 21 May 1943, Page 5
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