KNOCKED CHILD DOWN

Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3188, 14 August 1930, Page 4

KNOCKED CHILD DOWN

LORRY DRIVER CHASED. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) GISBORNE, Wednesday. Run to earth by a motorist after a chase of ten miles on July 15, a lorry driver, Peta Mua (Peter Moore), aged 33, of Tologa Bay, has been committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of negligently driving a lorry and thereby causing injury to Noeline Kidd, aged nine. The evidence showed that Mua was driving the lorry, with three Maori companions, from Gisborne towards Tologa Bay, when he knocked the girl off her bicycle near an intersection. He was travelling on the wrong side of the road at a speed of over 30 miles an hour, according to the estimate of witnesses, and he did not stop after the accident. A motrist, Leslie A. Potts, saw the accident, and gave chase and overtook the lorry about 12 miles from Gisborne. He took the names of Mua and his companions, and inspected the lorry, noting certain damage, before allowing it to proceed. Detective McLeod stated that accused strenuously denied knowledge of any accident when interviewed three days later. The girl suffered a fractured jaw and arm and severe bruises, and according to medical evidence,' there is a likelihood of permanent disability.