HEAVIER PENALTIES
president of mqtor union suggests the birch Auckland, Friday. Heavier penalties for persons unlawfully converting motor-cars to their own use were urged at the annual conference of the North Island Motor Union, which opened in Auckland yesterday." The vice-president of the union, Dr. E. E. Porritt, suggested a severe birching should he included in the penalty. "In many cases youths are responsible for the trouble, and I eonsider severe birchings for off enders would go a long way toward stamping out the nuisance, he said. "The union has been making strong and repeated reptesentations to the Government," said the president, Mr. W. A. O'Callaghan. Numerous conferences had been held, but so far little progress had been made.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 614, 19 August 1933, Page 5
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119HEAVIER PENALTIES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 614, 19 August 1933, Page 5
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