ALTERNATIVE CHARGE
MAORI IN VEHICLE MAJOR COUNT WITHDRAWN An unusual combination of charges, alleged intoxication in charge of a motor-truck and of being drunk in a public place, was preferred against a Maori. Joseph Maihi, aged 33 (Mr W. J. King) in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, to-day, before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M. The magistrate instructed the police to withdraw the charge of intoxication in charge of a motor-truck, and convicted the defendant of being drunk in a public place. He was ordered to pay medical expenses amounting to £1 Is. Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert, in prosecuting, said Maihi was arrested in High Street, Frankton, at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday. He sat at the wheel of the truck and was obviously intoxicated. He was taken to the police station and certified by a doctor to be intoxicated. Maihi, however, was not the driver of the truck and he had not the ignition key. He was to be driven home by the owner of the vehicle and was waiting in the driver’? seat for him.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 6
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174ALTERNATIVE CHARGE Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 6
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