HIT-AND-RUN CHARGE
FINE OF £lO IN CITY It NOT AW ARK OF IMPACTJi :; CENSURE BY MAOTSTRAiTE| I (Per Press Association.) !"!£-I'-\.-AUCKLAND, this day! S£T£ Charged with failing to stop after .the ';: ear lie was driving struck a man in I'arnell. Ernest A. Hjorth, a- ...clerk ,;. of works for the Public Works. - Depart- « tnent. Motutapu, was to-day -fined r £lC. -■ A constable and a taxi-driver gave _ :,. evidence of witnessing the accident. •W' -4 The defendant, who pleaded doF" ', guilty, and two passengers said, irr flvi- " denco that they were not aware that the ■; car had hit a man. Mr. Wyvem Wilson, S.M., declined -, to accept'the statements, and remarked :;; that such conduct was inhuman. r
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 15
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113HIT-AND-RUN CHARGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 15
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