HIS FIRST DRINK
CHRISTMAS DAY ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) TTMARU, December 27. His first drink cost Robert M’Kinney £5 more than he' expected. M’Kinney, a motor driver, aged eighteen, pleaded guilty in the police court to-day to being intoxicated in charge of a motorvan. Inspector Bird said that M’Kinney was out with two other youths. They went into a hotel after hours and had two drinks, the first M’Kinney had ever had. Coming home in the early hours of Christmas morning,he collided with a motor-cycle, but the damage was slight. Inquiries were to be prosecuted concerning the supply of the liquor. Mr A. L. Gee, J.P., said that he hoped the people who supplied the liquor had received a lesson. They were more to blame than the accused. Someone might have been killed. M’Kinney was convicted and fined £5.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1931, Page 5
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141HIS FIRST DRINK Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1931, Page 5
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