CAUGHT A TARTAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 175, 11 August 1937, Page 7

CAUGHT A TARTAR

-PlfeBS ABSociation.)

it Intoxicated Dtiver Called oa Constable to Stop HAD N0 LICENCE HIMSELF

(By Telegraph-

WOODVILLE, This Day. Motofing back to Woodville at five o'clock on Monday afternoon, Constable L. Skinner was bailed on tbe outskirts of the toivn by a man. wlio demanded tliat he should produce his drxver's licenee. Obligingly, tlie constable pulled up and went back to the man, who by this time was seated at the di'iving wheel of a stationary car nearby. A visitor t« Woodville, his sui'prise was grt?at when told that he had called on the re^dent constable, and it giew still further When Constable Skinner inioi'med him that he 'was not in a fit condition to dfive his own ea t. Despite the constable' s efforta to prevent him . t.\.x man, who had: a companion in the front seat, drOve oflr. Aftef leading tbe constable through several side sti'eets, he headed for the open country on the main road towards Palmerston North, and it was olily aftef travelling ftbotifc five miles that he was arrfested half a mile bevond the entrance to the Manawatu Gorge. The iugitive, Norman Olsen, of Ow-" hango, appeared before Messrs . S. Turnbull and D« Keay, Justices of the Peace, at Woodville yesterday morning, chargjed with being intoxicated in charge of a car. He pleaded guilty and was tined £12 10/- and ordered to pay the doctor's fee. He had caught a Tartar properly in demanding the constable' s licence, for it was discovered after arrest that ho did not possess one himself. For thia be was fined 10/- a costs. Tbe penalty of the greatest immediate significanoe, however_ was that he was prohibited from ohtainingi a licenee for 12 months, so that cefote he and his companion could undertake their iengthy trip to their home on the Main Trunk, his companion, fortunatel.y a nlotorist himself, had to undergo a test with the Borougk Council's ofiicer and obtain a licence. He left Woodville later, driving with him a sadder and a wiser man, Norman OJsen. • 4