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DRUNKEN CAR DRIVER.

LICENSE SUSPENDED FOR TWELVE MONTHS.

Donald McLean, labourer, aged 25, was charged at the Palmerston N. Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, with being intoxicated while driving a motor car and not being in possession of a driver’s license. Counsel entered a plea of guilty.

Senior-Sergeant O’Grady said the case was rather a bad one. The constable who effected the arrest had (old him McLean was careering along at a rate of 40 miles an hour. The car zig-zagged all over Church St., and people had to get onf to the footpaths pretty quickly. Counsel stated defendant had been suffering from pleurisy' and an injury to his back. He was driving his brother-in-law’s car, but had no right to be doing so. It had been ascertained that McLean had only two drinks and after consuming them undoubtedly lost his head. The Senior-Sergeant: When McLean pulled up outside a house in the street lie fell over the side of the car. He was discovered helplessly drunk.

The Bench fined him £lO in default two months’ imprisonment on the charge of intoxication and recorded a conviction on the charge of driving without a license, while he was disqualified from receiving a license for a period’ of twelve months. Application for the suppression of his name was refused.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19260923.2.24

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 3

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DRUNKEN CAR DRIVER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 3

DRUNKEN CAR DRIVER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 3

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