INTOXICATED MOTORIST
MAORI SENT TO GAOL. HASTINGS, April 5. Kape Tamahere, a Maori labourer, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and his driver's licence was cancelled for two years, by Mr J. Miller. S.M., when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Hastings to-day. He pleaded guilty to a charge of having been drunk while in charge of a motor-car.
Detective-Sergeant Revell said it was Tamahere's third conviction. He had been convicted in 1930 for having driven a motor cycle while intoxicated, and in 1934 he was fined £lO for having been drunk in charge of a motor car.
“Some time ago there was a elean-up of this sort of offence in Hastings." said Mr Miller, "but it seems to be getting bad again. I seem to have one of these cases to deal with every time 1 visit this town. I can’t let you oil with a fine this time.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 7
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