CHINESE ASSAULTED.
INTOXICATED •-MOTORIST^
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Monday.
Arising from a collision between a car and truck near Ngahauranga on Saturday evening, Peter Wotherspoon, aged 44, a works manager, was charged before Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., to-day with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor car and assault on the Chinese driver of the truck. He pleaded guilty to both charges. The police prosecutor stated that when the Chinese produced a notebook to take the number of the car, accused knocked him down. Aecused was told by a constable to pull into the side of the road, but drove off. He was later stopped and a doctor pronounced him unfit to drive.
On the intoxication charge, accused was fined flO and prohibited from holding a license for six months. On the second charge he was fined £1 10/.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 171, 21 July 1936, Page 11
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