DRUNK DRIVER LOSES LICENSE FOR 12 MONTHS
Jdakes Offer To Prohibit Himself Taare Biddle, Ruatoki truck driver, who pleaded guilty to having been found drunk in charge of a truck on the Wha- ! katane-Opotiki Highway on Wednesday night, was convicted and had his driving license taken away for twelve months when he was brought before Messrs L. D. Lovelock and C. H. Christensen, J’s P., in the Police Court at Whakatane yesterday morning. Constable A. Puttick prosecuted. He said at. 6.25 p.m. on Wednesday he accompanied Traffic Inspector Sharpe in persuit of an erraticallydriven truck, which they stopped about two miles from Tatieatua. Biddle, who was driving, was drunk, and Doctor Cole certified him unfit to drive. The Traffic Inspector’s evidence was that the truck was on the wrong side of the road, and he tried for about five chains before .he could get past it. Then his first attempt to stop it failed. The second time he overtook the truck, Constable Puttick called out of the window of the car, telling Biddle to stop, and then they pulled in in front of him and stopped him. Biddle was unsteady on his feet. a Biddle asked for his license back, and offered to take out a prohibition order. He was told from the Bench that there was no alternative to cancelling his license, but that would be the only penalty in this* case. He could arrange the prohibition order with the Police.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 September 1948, Page 5
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242DRUNK DRIVER LOSES LICENSE FOR 12 MONTHS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 September 1948, Page 5
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