TAXI-DRIVER ATTACKED
MAORI YOUTH CHARGED (PA.) Auckland, Oct. 10. A taxi-driver, Herbert O. Smith, received hospital treatment on Friday morning for an injury allegedly caused by a blow on the back of his head from a man whom he had • driven from Karangahape Road to Bowen Avenue. When he was struck Mr. Smith bumped against the car d*or and fell on the roadway, the car careering down Bowen Avenue and running into a lamp standard. Mr. Smith staggered to the footpath and was assisted by a passing airman to a police station. After he had received treatment at the hospital, he went home. A Maori youth appearing before Justices of the Peace in the Children’s Court to-day, charged with assaulting Mr. Smith. At the request of the police he was remanded until October 15, and ordered to be kept apart from other prisoners.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 6
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