POLICE COURT.
• CONVICTED FOR DRUNKENNESS. At the Paeroa Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr W. F. North, J.P., a middle-aged man named John Fitzgerald was convicted and fined £2, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment in Thames Giwl, for drunkenness on the Paeroa railway station on Wednesday evening last. Constable McClinchy stated that in rcspoi se to a telephone call from the stationmaster he had gone to the-sta-tion and arrested Fitzgerald. The defendant was a stranger to the town, and had come from Bombay, near Auckland. On his arrival in Paeroa he purchased a bottle of methylated spirits, which had been partly consumed, causing the drunken condition. The constable stated that Fitzgerald had been a menace to the station officiate, and he asked that a heavy penalty be inflicted. On arrest it was found that defendant had only twopence in his possession.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4732, 1 August 1924, Page 2
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141POLICE COURT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4732, 1 August 1924, Page 2
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