SENT TO GAOL
MAORI DRIVER
CONVERSION CHARGE
(By Telegraph—Press Assc nation.)
TAIHAPE, This Day.
With his face swathed in bandages, a Maori shearer, Peter Riwai, aged 24, Halcombe, appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning before Justices of the Peace charged with being in charge of a car while in a state of intoxication arid with unlawfully converting a car to his own use. The accused pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment on each charge.
Sergeant McCrae said that the accused took the car while drunk and ran into a bank near Taihape on Saturday. He was cut about the face by broken glass from the windscreen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 11
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