COOLING OFF.
A DIMINK AT SKA
The story of how a man came in from the country, proceeded to get intoxicated, and then walked 1 along the breakwater, dived into the sea, and swam a considerable distance out into the bay before being brought back to eartli by a somewhat bewildered policeman, was told in the Magistrate's Court thia morning, when a middle-aged man ap peared before Mr. E, 0. Levrey, S.M., to answer a charge of drunkenness, •Senior-Sergeant Fitzpatriek explained the episode in a few worde, slating that the accused, in an inebriated condition, had disrobed himself and taken to the water and swum out some two or three Hundred yards before Constable McKeiizie, in a hired launch, had' followed him up arid persuaded him that ho would be safer ashore.
The accused was convicted and. ordered to pay expenses amounting to 10s 6d.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 7
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145COOLING OFF. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 7
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