STUDENT FINED.
SPEEDING MOTOR-CYCLIST. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 29. Chester M. Gray, of Canterbury Collegs, had just won a scholarship. Ho was in a hurry to get home with the good news, and extended his motorcycle to forty miles an hour along Papanui Road. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day he was charged with speed, and made the explanation about his success. The Magistrate: Are you still at Canterbury College? The defendant: Yes. “Well they are supposed to have some ' brains there, aren’t they?” asked, the Magistrate. “We credit the students of Canterbury College with having some brains and using them.” “I had just won a scholarship,” explained the defendant. The Magistrate: We must have a piece of that scholarship ; £2 and costs, with solicitor’s fee £1 Is.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1928, Page 8
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