KNOCKED DOWN PILLAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 283, 25 July 1932, Page 4

KNOCKED DOWN PILLAR

BACKED INTD DRAl^ WHAKATANE MAORI FACES CHARGE OF DRUNKEN DRIVING BORROWED FRIEND'S CAR The sequel to a collision -with . gate post and the backing of a eainto a drain was the arrest on Sah: day evening o fa Maori, Kereru Hurby Coi^fcabfesJColly. A complaint was lodged with f: police by a near-by resident of Ava:' Street, , that a drunken Maori had / a car into a drain and Constable Ke" after iuquiries, found that the jy "had managed to extricate the car ai' di-iven to the King Gaorge V Hospij| where he was later arrested. It appears that a party 0f ftMaoris came from Whakatane to vfc a relation in the hospital and alfe edly absorhed a number of drinkse route, Three of the party wentin the hospital, leaving the fourth ti allegedly had succumbed to the liqC:, in the car. Whilst his companip were inside, he recovered and drtfl back into town; apparently taking Mr. F. B. K. MeArthur's gfl age, in Arawa Street, for some oifl plaee, he unsuccessfully tried to ne-S tiate the entrance. He then m/B — crashed into and knocked dowc'H stone pillai*, and ended in the He got out and went to Mr McArthtB house, frightening a maid who vH there, when he inquired as to (B location of the hospital. 0n | told to go away, he did so and drflf | back to the hospital. In the meanhB j the other three Maoris, who had ctifl j out of the hospital, found HumeBj i the car hut h'e made no mentiosBI j any accident, and the owner offflt j car, a native farmer named Ton^K ! Rogers, of Whakatane, drovethetg^B | to the football. |k | Kereru Hune will this morning ffl| j charges of being intoxicated in ch^B j of a car and also of driving Avitho;!^® i licence. | He was bailed last evening jnflK ( sum of £20. ! The car was not seriouslv daia-^B