HIS FOURTH OFFENCE.
DRUNKEN MAORI DRIVER. GAOL AND LICENSE BAN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Saturday. “ You’ll not be called on to pay a fine on this occasion,” said Mr. <E. L. Walton, S.M. in the Police Court this morning to Iriapa Renata. “ This Is the fourth time you’ve been before the court and convicted for being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car.” Renata was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment and prohibited from obtaining a license for three years, when the police stated that accused was so drunk that he could have been arrested for drunkenness. Renata said he had nothing to ask except for three or four weeks to pay a fine as he had a wife and three children to dinpnrt.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 6
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122HIS FOURTH OFFENCE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 6
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