ROADSIDE FRACAS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 642, 19 April 1929, Page 16

ROADSIDE FRACAS

MOTORISTS HAVE AN ARGUMENT DISPUTE AIRED IN COURT Pi-css Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. A collision between two cars in Taita Gorge, the pursuit of one car by the other, and a subsequent alleged assault, were the elements in two cases heard in the Upper Hutt Magistrate’s Court. William Arthur Gadsby was charged frith attempting to pass a car when the road was not clear, and his father, Arthur Gadsby, was charged with assaulting John Purvis, of Upper Hutt. A contsable said that the two Gadsbys and the two Purvis’s called at the station. Purvis, senr., complained that Gadsby’s car was attempting to pass the car in front when he saw them coming in the opposite direction. The Gadsbys turned in, but not in time to a\ oid a collision. Gadsby, senr., complained that the Purvises were on the wrong side of the road when the collision occurred, and the Gadsbvs pursued them, and they stopped the car. Gadsby, senr.. said that he was accused of being drunk, and that he pushed his open hand against Purvis’s face. Purvis, senr.. alleged that he was struck on the face. The Gadsbys admitted having had a little liquor. The charge against Gadsbv. junr.. was dismissed, but the father was fined £2 for assault, the magistrate taking into account that accused was highly excited at the time.