INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Evening Star, Issue 22455, 28 September 1936, Page 8

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

PERSISTENT OFFENDER IMPRISONED < ■ ANBTMER FINED £» [Per United Prim Amociatjok.] CHRISTCHURCH. September 28. Robert Franklin Dgbson, aged 23, a porter, was sentenced to two months, imprisonment in the . Magistrate a Court to-day for being,intoxicated,in charge of a car. Dobson, was also charged with signing a, false name to obtain a rental car, driving without a license, and committing a breach of his prohibition order. On these he was convicted and discharged. The police said that Dobson obtained a rental car by signing a false, name and producing a license belonging to another man. Following a slight acci. dent he returned the car to the garage where the damage to the vehicle was noticed and the police sent for. Dobson had been convicted of a similar offence two years ago and was admitted to probation. He broke the probation, order and was sentenced to two years in the Borstal, from which be was now od license. ._ John Daniel M'Dougall, on a charge of being intoxicated in a can was fined £2O and costs, and his license waa cancelled for 12 months. £lO FINE IMPDBEO [Pjb United Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., September 28. . On a charge of. being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car itt Rangitikei street, one of the maw business thoroughfares, on Saturday, John Simeon (21), a labourer, waa fined £lO by Mr Stout, S.M., who also prohibited Simeon from driving forLJ months. The defendant was fined 10* for failing to possess a driver's license. As this was his first offence, the Magistrate said that he would^ let toe defendant off with a fine, but drew hi* attention to cases in which such offenders were being sent to prison.