SEQUEL TO COLLISION
INTOXICATED DRIVER FINED Frotn Our Own Correspondent TE AWAMUTU, Monday. Charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a car at Te Awamutu on January 18, Hugh Charles Plowden appeared before Mr. Wyvern Wilson in th© Te Awamutu Magistrate’s Court on Monday. A fine of £5 and costs £1 was imposed, conditional on a prohibition order being taken out. Constable Forsyth said Plowden collided with another vehicle containing Maoris, and as a result witness arrested Plowden, who was muddled with drink. Defendant said he left Hamilton at about 9 a.m. He had had four drinks of beer at Ohaupo between about 10.20 ;md 11.15 a.m. He then drove to keep an appointment at Kihikihi. When negotiating McGovern’s Hill he pulled out a little to take the S bend when he saw the Maoris* car coming down, and the crash occurred soon afterward. There was only bare room for two cars to pass on the bitumen. H© was not under the influence of liquor.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 900, 18 February 1930, Page 7
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