MAORI DRIVER FINED
SEQUEL TO COLLISION (Special to Times) WHAKATANE, Saturday On a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor lorry a Maori. William Nathan, was convicted and fined £3O and costs bv justices in the Police Court, Whakatane. He was ordered to pay £4 4s medical expenses. Constable T. J. Cummings said that a Maori fell from a truck being driven along a road. The man was observed by a service car driver, who stopped to investigate- When Nathan’s lorry came on the scene the driver of the service car was obliged to jump to safety, the vehicle passing over the man on the road and eoliding with the service car. Nathan was intoxicated when the police arrived. It was stated that the injuries received by the man on the road were not consistent with his having been struck by Nathan's lorry.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20822, 5 June 1939, Page 9
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146MAORI DRIVER FINED Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20822, 5 June 1939, Page 9
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