“MENACE ON ROAD”
MAORI LOSES HIS LICENSE MOTOR-CAR IN BAD CONDITION “This man is a perfect menace on the road when he operates a vehicle in such a condition," said Traffic Inspector F. C. J. Cook, of the Transport Department, in the Magistrate's Court. Hamilton, to-day. when Tom Ngahere. a Maori farm hand, was charged with dangerous driving, with having no lights, with having inefficient brakes and with operating a car without a warrant of fitness. •‘He has given the police quite a deal of trouble," said the inspector. “The case has been adjourned on 10 occasions because the defendant could not be located. On the night I stopped him he he had some liquor." Ngahere lad his driver’s license suspended for three years and fines tot-al-ling £5 10s and costs were imposed. The traffic inspector said Ngahere drove over the Fairfield Bridge without lights, struck a car, then drove off towards Te Rapa. He was overtaken by the inspector but had difficulty in stopping his car as the brakes were defective.
The car was found by the inspector to be in such an unsafe state that he would not allow Ngahere to drive it. The inspector drove the defendant home and the car to a garage.
"It is an incredible story," said Mr Morling.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20714, 26 January 1939, Page 2
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