HAMILTON COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 15

HAMILTON COURT

BREACHES OF TRAFFIC BY-LAWS CONVERSION OF MOTOR-CARS (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Wednesday. Robert Pryde Turnbull and Thomas Turnbull pleaded guilty to-day in the Magistrate’s Court to the theft of a motor tyre and rim valued at £5. Being ineligible to be dealt with summarily they were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Maurice Allen Graham was fined £2 and had his licence suspended for three months on charges of dangerous driving. and Thomas H. Bond was lined £1 for negligent driving. Similar harges against James R. Jackman were dismissed. Kenneth Hugh Gough, a recent arrival in Waikato, paid a visit to Hamilton last week and seeing Mr. H. K. Caro’s car he assumed possession of it. He was discovered occuping it by a constable and arrested. To-day he was charged before Mr. Wyvern Wilson. S.M., with unlawfully converting the car to his own use, though not so as to be guilty of theft. It was stated that when apprehended accused was slightly intoxicated and made the excuse that the car belonged to his uncle, but afterwards admitted the offence. Apparently the cause of the trouble, was drink, stated Mr. W. King, who appeared for the accused, otherwise he would probably not have committed the offence. He had two previous convictions, the one on a small charge of theft and the other for the unlawful conversion of a motor-cycle. Accused proposed to take out a prohibition order and counsel asked for leniency. His Worship: What is the use of prohibiting him. He is only 20 and it is illegal to supply him with liquor. Counsel said Gough had several jobs he could go to and; good prospects. “Other prospects, too,” added the magistrate. Accused was remanded pending further inquiries as to his character.