DRUNK IN CAR
CRIPPLED NATIVE FINED
DISQUALIFIED FROM DRIVING
A crippled Maori, who was charge 1 with being intoxicated in charge of a car, appeared before Messrs Moody and Hay ward, Justices of the Peace, at Taneatua on Wednesday. He was lined £10 and was disqualified from driving for two years.
Tile native was Kopa and Constable O. Rice stated that he had arrested him the previous day when he found him in charge of his car in Tuhoe Street. He was not in a lit
-state to drive.
Constable liiee drew the Justices' attention to accused's crippled state, and suggested that °n this account he should not hold a licence.
Another native, Tom Tangahou, who was arrested by Constable Rice at Taneatua last Saturday evening on a. charge of being drunk and disorder, ly, also appeared before Messrs HayAvard and Moody. He \va,s fin ed £2.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 28, 26 June 1939, Page 5
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147DRUNK IN CAR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 28, 26 June 1939, Page 5
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