DRUNKEN MOTORIST.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18410, 17 June 1925, Page 6

DRUNKEN MOTORIST.

SEVEN DAYS' IMPRISON- I MENT. | MARSHLAND'S DAIRYMAN. Sentence of seven days' imprisonment with hard labour -was passed on Frank Slade. a dairyman, aged 41 years, residing in Preston's road. Marshland, by Mr "Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, for having been found in a state of intoxication in a motor-ear in St. Asaph street en Monday afternoon. "At about three, o'clock yesterday afternoon," said Sub-Inspector A. Cameron, who prosecuted for the police, '"tve received a telephone message at the police station, and as :i result a constable went 'down to St. Asaph street and found tho accused. Ho was in a very bad state." Formal evidence as to the finding of Slade in the motor-ear was given by Constable McCoimack, who said accused was endeavouring to start the car when lie arrived. Leniency was asked for by Mr A. .T. Mulley. who appeared for accused. Counsel said Slade was a married man with a wife and ono child. He was a dairy farmer, and had been iri that business sint'o 1007. Ho retailed as much as £8 gallons "of milk daily and so.d eight gallons wholesale. None of accused's customers had been served with milk that morning, continued Mr Malley, and that would provo to be a great" financial loss to him. If his Worship sentenced Slade to a' term of imprisonment, it would go hard with him, for there was no one in his household who knew the milk round. His Worship said that the Courts all through New Zealand were viewing similar offences with the utmost seriousness. Drunken motorists were not only a danger to themselves but to the lives of others. ■ They must bo made to realiso the gravity of such offences. However, he did not think the case was one which merited a long term of imprisonment. Slade was convicted and sentenced \o seven days' imprisonment.