Gaol For Intoxicated Motorist
WELLINGTON, Dee. 6. » "You will be convicted and sentenced to 21 days ' imprisoninent and • as your licenee has already been cancelled for a similar offence,- you will be prohibited from obtaining one for -tliree year's and then only on an order from the Court5,,, said Mr. "A. M. Goulding, S.M., at Lower Hutt, when sentencing Harvey -John Ambrose Kirke, aged 24, driver, of Lower Hutt, who appeared on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle on Sunday. A woman motorist, .Editli Aroha Day, domestic, aged 44, was fined £3Q ap.d had lier licence cancelled "for thrfee years when slie pleaded guilty in tiie M^gistrate 's Court today of being intoxicated in charge "of a ear in Willis Street on Saturday evening. Mr. H. J. Thompson, was on-the Bench. Sub-Inspeetor W. J.- K. Brown stated that the aCcused had been convicted in j anuary," 1947, for the same offence. On that dccasion she had been fitned £20 and'her li.eence was cancelled for a year. ■ . On Saturday she was seen by a traffie inspector trying to start her ear outsicLe a hotel in Willis Street. He took her to , the poliee station where she was certihed b.y a doctor to be not in a fit state to drive a ear.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 December 1948, Page 3
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216Gaol For Intoxicated Motorist Chronicle (Levin), 7 December 1948, Page 3
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