CHRISTMAS EVE PRANK ENDED IN BLAZE
Converted Motor Cycle Destroyed i Early on Christmas Day, George Frederick Cane, 22, and a 16-year-old youth took a motor-cycle belonging to a fellow-employee at a private hote! in Rotorua with the idea of going to Tauranga, but the machine, valued at £150, caught fire on the ( street and was practically destroyed. ) Cane was charged in the Magis1 trate's Court yesterday with unlawfully converting the motc-r-cycle to his own use. He pleaded guilty, and his counsel, Mr. E. Roe, who described the ineident as a stupid prank, said Cane was prepared to make t re'stitution. , The Magistrate, Mr. J. H. Luxford, ; placed "defendant on probation for two years, on the conditions that he , took such employment as the proba- [ tion officer approved and |hat he paid , £1 a" week during the probationary . period. His Worship added that it was lucky for the defendant that he and his companion had not been seriously burned.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5320, 5 February 1947, Page 4
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159CHRISTMAS EVE PRANK ENDED IN BLAZE Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5320, 5 February 1947, Page 4
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