MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

,fe ( S i , Pa S e > S.M., presided at the Magistrate s Court on Saturday morniiw, and dealt with the police oases. Johau Ursen was chained with being drunk wine m charge of a motor-lorry. Inspector Marsack said that the accused, while in charge of a motor-lorry and ville Koad, had collided with a motorJames Hodson, motor-car proprietor, said he was driving a motor-car with passengers, and was on his way to Wellington from Wanganui. In the Ngahaaranga Gorge witness, while driving on thd right side of his road, was run into by the defendant's lorry. The <lelendant, who was driving at an excessive speed was drunk at the time. Witness gave ns reasons for beliovii> K that tho defendant was drunk. In answer to Mr. p. Newman, who appeared f Ol . the.accused: witness said tin Jl? IVnS ¥ ym « m at al ' ollt ci 2 fl t or 2J t Por hm ! r - Tho <l<'f«ndant had f ? f room to pass. Witness was h, l P i non^'- ,at Lttnen ™> too drunk rnX an ? Hnl * and just drove on regardless of consequences. John Eoss, who was a passonger in tavn o °vT" Car ' aml Se " WaA also gavo evidence. The accused in his ev'idence said that ho had ono drink between 10 and 11 in. tho morning, one earlier in the day and one about 3 p.m.. iust before he start d on hw journey He had never been "remouslv charged with insobriety 111 reply to Inspector Marsack - he mid he had fee whiskies during tl laj. He started work at 3 o'clock in h „, H,i ßg to eat al" convicto ' (l aml fined For insobriety, Florence Ward, agai-ist whom there was ono previous conviction, pi^oZnt! 0 - 5 " m defall,t » W im! fill tl rSt offcnde , rß /fti; insobriety, who h3d tteir bail ° f n™ p fc of B l ilty w . as ont<!ral fe y W'l- - H.» /o eJ \ r t0 ? 6 of fuelling on the os. Maori on July 31, on +he HE fl '°'- 11 ¥ teltM 1o Well ngton without nnymg the le.ral f are of 13s! Gd inU~t AiUdefa,,,t6eVell(,a >' 6 ' A remand to Wednesday next was wiihl 1 " H '? CMO of Wi "i-™ *»*« H,ift n ' *:i 10 , WM fihar S ell with tho tnn n l car ,P° nt f«' tools, valued at 45, lowJ P f Hy ° f An ? io ■ Dnff y- B » !I ™ allowed m one surely of .EIOO.