DRUNKEN DRIVER
YOUNG MAORI GAOLED
CRASHED INTO PARKED CAR
Before Messrs. G. Brabant and J. King J. P.’s, in the Whakatane Court on Friday morning, Sharkey Hakaipari Peita a young Maori of Ruatoki, pleaded guilty to being found in a slate of intoxication in charge of a truck in Whakatane on Thursday and further that he held no driver’s license.
Sergeant Farrell stated that accused was in town celebrating with a number of returned men from the Maori Battalion and that when he pulled out from the kerb he had backed the truck heavily into a stationary car in which were several children and a woman passenger, who had had a very narrow escape. He failed to stop but drove off, subsequently parking the truck in llie rear of the Strand and making off. He was later arrested at ißuatoki. The bench observed that the ease was a serious one in that it was not even . possible to cancel accused’s license. He would be sentenced to two months in Mount Eden, on the first charge and convicted and discharged on the second.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 41, 5 February 1946, Page 5
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182DRUNKEN DRIVER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 41, 5 February 1946, Page 5
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