MAORI'S ESCAPADE.
MOTOR CYCLE CONVERTED. i ARREST FOLLOWS COLLISION. (From Our Correspondent.) n MORRINBVILLE; Monday. The efforts of a Mkari to start a motor cycle In Studholme Street, Morrinsville, on Friday evening, and its subsequent collision with the kerb attracted tho attention of Countable J. McMullan, with tho result that Timi Hakopa, of Rotorua, was charged in the Morrinavillo Court, to-day with converting the motor cycle to his own us®, riding while in n state of intoxication, and riding without n motor driver's license. Pleading guilty to nil three charges, acc'iscd wiiH neutcnced liy the presiding justices, Mcr.sra. C. M. fJuinmer ami W. Morriw, J.P.'s, to three months' imprisonment on the conversion charge mid two weeks' imprisonment. on the intoxication charge, tho terms to be concurrent,. Accused wns convicted and discharged „n the third charge. Constable McMullan *aid accused was under the influence of liquor when taken Into custody, and could not explain why he had taken the motor cycle, which had been left in a parking area.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 8
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168MAORI'S ESCAPADE. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 8
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