INTOXICATED MOTORCYCLIST
FINED £l5 AND LICENSE '' CANCELLED. William George Lawton, a fisherman, was fined £l5 and had his driver’s license cancelled for twelve months by Mr. E. Page, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, on a charge of being intoxicated while in - charge of a motor-cycle. , i. Sub-Inspector Lander stated . that while riding the cycle in Oriental Bav on the evening of January 1.1, Lawton had a mishap as the result of running over a stone. He was. flung to the' ground, and as he was intoxicated a' policeman, who was near by, took him to the station. A doctor was summoned, and he stated that defendant, who had received injuries to tlie face as the result of the fall, was suffering from alcoholic poisoning. Lawton was then taken to the Public Hospital where he was admitted as a patient. He had told a constable that be had taken a good deal of drink on the day in question and was riding around the back of Oriental Bay so as to avoid the police. . Lawton was ordered te P a Y , llls the rate of £1 a week. Hie default was fixed at one month s imprisonment. —
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 12
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197INTOXICATED MOTORCYCLIST Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 12
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