A man is speaking with police after another man was stabbed in his neck on the Coromandel Peninsula last night.
Emergency services were called to a hotel on the town's Kapanga Rd about 9.15pm after a man walked into a bar suffering from a wound to his neck, Detective SergeantMartyn Hughes of the Thames-Coromandel CIB said.
"The man told staff and patrons at the bar that he had been stabbed, and police and ambulance staff were called.
"The man was taken to Thames Hospital suffering from a serious but non-life threatening wound to his neck."
The injured man and a 47-year-old man were drinking at a residential property, when an argument broke out, and he was stabbed, Mr Hughes said.
Inquiries led police to a Victoria St address this morning where a 47-year-old man was arrested.
"This man is currently being interviewed and we will need to wait until this interview has been completed before we will know what, if any, charges may be laid," Mr Hughes said.
