MOTOR-CYCLISTS IN COURT.
ONE SENT TO GAOL.
Per Press Association
AUCKLAND, Jan. 3.
Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., to-day sent one motor-cyclist to gaol and fined another £5 for being intoxicated. Frederick George Palete, aged 29, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. i
The police said that he had got into difficulties in a city street and crashed and was taken to hospital for treatment and escaped. 1 The Magistrate said that accused had a bad list in connection with motor-cycles and had been ordered not to ride for two years. He was not going to pass over his latest offence. William Charles Griffiths, aged 34, who crashed into a car in Queen Street, was fined £5. “Let him sell his motor-bike, said the Magistrate when defendant asked for time to pay.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 2
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