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HAMILTON SESSIONS. (PBSSS ASSOCIATIOH IELEGBAK.) HAMILTON, February 25. X fatal accident which occurred at ±e Awamutu on tlie Ohaupo road, on the evenIn- of December 12th. when a motor-iony returning to Hamilton from the Te Awamutu races upset, killing Ernest Thomas White one of the occupants:, and breaking both legs of another occupant named Cook, bad its sequel at the Hamilton Supreme Court, when Leonard Charles Davis was charged ■with bein<- in a state of whilst in charge of a motor-lorry, and causing the death of White. , . A larce number of witnesses aro being called. The trial is likely to last two days. SENTENCE ALTERED. (rRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) HAMILTON, February C 5. The Magistrate, Mr Wyvern Wilson, a re-hcaring to-dby in tho ease m which* a motor-bus driver, Sydney James Thomas, wes sentenced od Wednesday to seven' "(lavs' imprisonment for stealing a steering wheel r.v.d bonnet of a truck abandoned on the. roadside at Horotiu. Vftcr evidence as to character, the sentence- was .altered to probation for three years.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18626, 26 February 1926, Page 13
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