MOTORISTS ATTITUDE.
■ i MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT. | NEGLIGENCE PROVED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association i NAPIKR. Monday, j "I cannot stress t<>o strongly the motorist's attitude toward the injured J man,'' said the magistrate in the Napier Magistrate's Court to-day. when fining | l-'rank Macovini £:2 ror negligent driv-I ing. The charge was a sequel to an j accident after a dance at Taradalc when a Maori was knocked down and had one ; leg injured. ' In evidence it was alleged that dc- i fendant said, when requested to take the j injured man to hospital. "Ivet his own ! drunken friends take him." 1 The magistrate said defendant's first | duty was to tlie man. The evidence of! negligence had l>een overwhelmingly proved. j
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 13
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