GAOL FOR MOTORIST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 14

GAOL FOR MOTORIST

INTOXICATED IN CAR STRUCK SAFETY ZONE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. "So many of these cases are coming before the court —were four arrests last week-end—that I think the only tiling to consider is whether the sentences in such cases should not be increased," said Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, in sentencing to two weeks’ imprisonment, Wilfred Victor Holliday, aged 33, a carpenter, who pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxication while in charge of a motor car in Queen street on Sunday night. At 11.37, the police said, a car driver, in -ian erratic manner collided witli a safety zone. Nothing previously was known against Holliday Defending counsel, Mr. Matthews, said that Holliday was employed by a contractor on emergency work for the Defence Department. His services were urgently required. He spent Saturday in a dentist’s chair and while feeling unwell on Sunday took a little liquor. The collision occurred during rain and was not attributable, to liqubr. j “I can see no reason for excluding this case from one where imprisonment should be ordered,” said the Magistrate. Accused’s license was cancelled for two years. ,