TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21542, 14 January 1932, Page 11

TELEGRAMS

(Per Uniteh Press Association.) HAMILTON, January 13. Clinging desperately to the running board of a speeding motor car in the early hours of New Year morning, in an effort to detain the driver, Constable Applin received a free ride which possessed its full complement of thrills. It was not until the car had been driven for four miles out of the town at a speed of 50 miles an hour that it was finally brought to a standstill. The sequel took place in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning, when Robert Edgar M'Crae pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The police evidence showed that the accused, when asked by Constables Applin and Callaghan to get out of the car, started the engine and threw Callaghan into the water table. When the vehicle was finally stopped M'Crae violently resisted arrest. A fine of £2O was imposed and the defendant’s driving license was suspended for three months. TAIHAPE, January 13. Allan Robinson, contractor, of Palmerston North, was charged at the court to-day before justices with forging the name of a fellow contractor, Alfred Matthews, to a document authorising repairs to a motor ear. He pleaded guilty and was committed to Wellington for sentence. GISBORNE, January 13. Extensive damage was done to the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club’s moth plane at the Gisborne aerodrome. On Monday evening the plane, piloted by Mr K. Gould, with a lady passenger, arrived at dusk, and in landing the undercarriage was stripped from the machine and the wings damaged. Neither the pilot nor the passenger was injured. The machine was sent back to Hastings by a lorry. WELLINGTON, January 13. Shortly after the Eastbourne ferry steamer Muritai left Wellington on the •trip to the bays last evening the steering gear carried away. With the engines still going, the vessel drifted, turning in circles, slowly up harbour towards Kaiwarra. The Union Company’s tug Natone was sent to pick her up, and the steamer was brought back to her berth shortly before 6“ It is expected that the Muritai will be running as usual this evening.