DRUNK OR INTOXICATED.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4675, 17 March 1924, Page 2

DRUNK OR INTOXICATED.

Wll.vr IS THE DIFFERENCE .’ A JUDGE'S DEFINITION. The definition of what constitutes drunkenness arose in the discussion of the Seamen’,s dispute at the Arbitration Court at Wellington last week. Mr \V. T. Young (secretary of Die Federated Seamen's Union) said that of course it was difficult to dqiine. Th? definition of His Honour the Chief Justice was that a man was di'uuu when lie lay down in the gutter ana could not get up.

His Honour, Mr Justice Frazer; li. toxication is when a man’s mental ami physical faculties have departed from the normal, by reason of tlie liquor he has taken. One drink has that < Ifect to an extent, and that definition might be a severe one from your point of view. I think that the definition we used to go on in police court work was a good one A man is intoxicated when by reason of the liiitior he is in such a condition that a person who is neither a publi ; can nor a prohibitionist would say that man has had enough, and should not have any more. Intoxication starts from complete sobriety at one end to the condition that a man cannot ask for more at the-other end. when he is drunk. That is the distinction.