SEQUEL TO SMASH.
MOTORIST SENT TO PRISON.
BOTTLES OF RKKR IX CAR
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
MORRINSVILLE, Monday.
A collision between a motor car driven by George Alfred Carl Whitehead tractor driver, of Waihi, and a stationary light delivery van parked off the bitumen on a straight stretch of load near Motuinaoho, about three miles from Morrinsville. on Saturday evenitm-" had a sequel in the Morrinsville Police Court to-day when Whitehead was sentenced to on« month's imprisonment on a charge of driving his car while in a state of intoxication.
The [.residing justices. Messrs. W Morrice and L. Echltn. J.P.'s, ordered the cancellation of Whitehead's license for two vears.
tuSfi J e t • MoMu,,at, "tatcd that Whitehead had been fined £20 for a similar offence at Cambridge on April 0 and had also been prohibited. On Saturday evening Whitehead was driving to Cambridge when he ran into the back of a motor van which was bein" repaired on the side of the road His passenger, S. Scliultz, was badly cut by glasß from the windscreen, and had to be attended to by Dr. S. Morrow and admitted to a private hospital Seven bottles of beer M'ere found in the car JJoth vehiclee were extensively damaged
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 113, 16 May 1939, Page 13
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