MOTOR MENACE

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 3

MOTOR MENACE

A £SO FINE

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association;)

AUCKLAND; November 25

Charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car on the evening of November 16, Henry Wilson, aged 49, was fined £57) and bis driving license was cancelled for twelve months in the Police 001114 to-day. The police said the accused was very much under the influence of liquor. He almost drove the car into the side of an overhead railway bridge, and just avoided a motorhus, and he crashed into a telegraph post. Counsel said the accused had applied his brakes when two children ran on to the road, and thp car skidded and crashed. He rarely touched liquor, hut that .afternoon, he and two employees of his farm went to a brewery at Otabidiu, had four whiskies, and later two glasses of beer. Magistrate: Levien : I always understood that beer, after whisky, had the effect of straightening a man up, hut in this.case, apparently, it didn’t. Edwin Rex Tremain," a commercial traveller, who was stated to be leaving for England to-morrow, was fined £2 in the Police Court to-day for dangerous driving of a motor car, and his driving license was endorsed. The police said that in Broadway, Newmarket, at 12.30 p.m. on November- 20, the accused overtook another car at forty miles an hour, and then increased his speed to at least fifty. Early next morning he went through Broadway again at forty miles an hour, going on the wrong side of tlie safety /.one, and skidding for twenty-four yards before stopping, when a constable Hashed his torch.

Replying to Magistrate Hunt, Tremain said that possibly he would not return from England. Tlie Magistrate: “I hope you never come back: a man like you ought to be off the road.”