NEGLIGENT DRIVING
Motorist Fined £5O By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHI R< H. March 16. The sequel to a fatality at Kai koura on New Year's D.i'. when James Gibson, aged 61, was killed, was heard at the Kaikoura Court. Francis Hendry, a baker, was convicted of negligently driving a motor car and was fined £s n - The police stated that the defendant’s car travelled 50 feet aloug the grass at the roadside and struck a post with such force that the post was dislodged four inches and split 12 feet up from the ground. The post was of hardwood. Mr. Gibson, who was in the car. was thrown out and hit the post and wa« killed
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 80, 16 March 1934, Page 5
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