FOOLISH ACTION
BOTTLE THROWN INTO STREET. YOUTH CONVICTED & FINED. Appearing in the Masterton Police Court this morning before Messrs H. E. Pither and J. H. Irving, J.’sP., on a charge of having thrown a bottle on to Park Street, Masterton, thereby causing broken glass, Derek Adams, aged 19 years, was convicted and fined £3. - Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett, stated that at about 7.45 o’clock last night. Adams threw a bottle from an upper window of the Occidental Private Hotel into Park Street, almost striking an elderly woman on the street. Adams afterwards came down and cleared up the broken glass.. He also apologised to the woman. The SeniorSergeant said Adams had not been in trouble before.
Adams staled to the Bench that he threw the bottle out of the window without thinking, and expresses regret at his action.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 7
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138FOOLISH ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 7
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