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DRUNKEN MOTORIST. z TAIHAPE, December 5. With his face swathed in bandages, a Maori shearer, Peter Riwai, aged 24, Halcombe, appeared in the Magistrates’ Court this morning before Jus-, tices of the Peace charged with being in charge of a car while in a state of intoxication and with unlawfully converting a car to his own use. Accused pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment on each charge. Sergeant McCrae said that accused, took the car while drunk and ran into a bank near Taihape on Saturday. He was cut about the' face by broken glass from the windscreen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1938, Page 2
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