NEGLIGENCE CHARGE FAILS
DEFENCE NOT CALLED ON. BY TUIiEGBArU. - I’UESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, February 28. A charge of negligently driving a mo-tor-lorry, thereby causing the death of an elderly Maori, Wetere Paki, on December 30, was preferred in the Magistrate’s Court against Claude Francis Stevens, and dismissed by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., without calling on the defence. Tho Maori, who was very feeble, was crossing at the junction of two streets when the lorry struck _ him, breaking ono leg, and he died iu the hospital. An eye-witness said that the Maori hesitated when in front of the lorry.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 5
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98NEGLIGENCE CHARGE FAILS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 5
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