INTOXICATED MOTOR CYCLIST
TWO WEEKS’ IMPRISONMENT i Ur.itlVm A asocial ioul AUCKLAND. 29th November. For violently resisting the constable who arrested him for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor cycle at Freeman’s Bay, a labourer named Trevor James Porter (21) had to be handcuffed. He pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to intoxication and resisting a constable. The police said that two constables saw Porter leave a hotel and walk to- ! wards a motor cycle. He disappeared | but was later seen with a companion !in Union street. He struck one conI stable on the chest and resisted violentIly before being handcuffed. He was ’ known to the police as a “speed fiend.” For resisting, Porter was admitted to probation for a year. On the other charge he was given two weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour and his driver’s license was cancelled for eighteen months.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 9
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