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DRUNKEN MOTOR CYCLIST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 29. For violently resisting the constable who arrested him for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-cycle at Freeman’s Bay. a labourer named Trevor James Porter, aged 21, had to be handcuffed. He pleaded guilty in the Magistrates’ Court today to intoxication and resisting a constable. The police said that two constables saw Porter leave a hotel and walk toward a motor-cycle. He disappeared, but was later seen with a companion in Union Street. He struck one constable on the chest and resisted violently before being handcuffed. He was known to the police as a “speed fiend.”
For resisting Porter was admitted to probation for a year. On the other charge he was given two weeks’ gaol with hard labour and his driver’s licence was cancelled for 18 months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1938, Page 9
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