SHEEP KILLED
LORRY'S WILD CAREER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day.
The story of a lorry ploughing through 1000 sheep, killing twenty and injuring many others, was told in the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton when a Maori. Wiremu Pairama, was charged before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., with being intoxicated in charge of the vehicle and with negligent driving.
It was one of the most serious cases of the kind that had come before the Court, said Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert. According to an eye-witness, the lorry came around a bend at 3o miles an hour. It did not slacken speed, but ploughed through the flock, Piling sheep over the front of the vehicle, and then careered into a ditch, where the driver calmly ate his lunch. The accused had a previous conviction for being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle. Unjustifiable leniency had been extended last time, said the Magistrate. The accused had committed a very serious offence again and there was nothing for him. but a term of imprisonment. , 1 O1 The accused was sentneceel to <v days' hard labour and his licence was cancelled for five years on the first charge. He was convicted and discharged on the second charge.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 10
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