CHASE IN CITY
YOUNG SLY-GROGGER
FORTNIGHT'S PRISON TERM
A 24-ycar-old three-quarter caste Maori, Matthew Watana, seen by police officers exhibiting a bottle of wine to servicemen in a vacant section m the city, ran away, threw the bottle on the roadwav where it broke, and was arrested only after a chase through the streets Pleading guilty to charges of slvS 1 oSShig, and of assisting in the ? u PPI>; of liquor to a native (himself) W atana was sentenced by Mr W. C. Harley, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, to fourteen days' imprisonment on the sly-grogsine charge, and Avas convictcd and discharged on the other. He had told the police he was given the wine
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 7 February 1944, Page 4
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116CHASE IN CITY Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 7 February 1944, Page 4
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