STATION INCIDENT
MAORI CHARGED
Telegraph—Prfeap Association.)
AUCKLAND, This. Day.
A Maori, Patrick Tait, 26, who caused excitement at the railway station last evening, pleaded, .guilty in the Police Court to charges of. drunkenness/and using obscene language.
"He was drunk and apparently suddenly, became madj" said Sub-Inspector Fox. "He ran along the station and frightened a crowd of people, then went into a bookstall ah.d frightened the young lady assistants.' The police were called and found Tait being held down by two porters. He gave trouble until lodged in a padded cell. He has never been in trouble before, and seems a decent chap when sober."
Mr. C. R. Orr Walker fined Tail 10s for drunkenness, and he was convicted on the other charges and ordered to come up for sentence if.called upon within six months. He was also ordered to take out a prohibition
order.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 11
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