INTOXICATED MOTOR DRIVERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3695, 24 September 1927, Page 2

INTOXICATED MOTOR DRIVERS.

HEAVY FINES IMPOSED. Auckland, September 23. “A drunken motorist in Auckland .'streets is as dangerous as a man with a loaded rifle,” said Mi - F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s (Court to-day, during the hearing of a case against Edward Edwin Boyd (aged 47), who pleaded guilty to being intoxicated while driving a car n Khyber Pass Road. Mr Allan Moody, who appeared for accused, said he had taken two whiskies after a football match last Saturday. While driving along the .road, a car in front of Boyd swerved and he struck it. . “Boyd is a married man with seven children,” said counsel, “and I have a testimonial from residents _ in his district that he is a careful 1 driver. It is not a bad case, and I ask for a light penalty.” The Magistrate: The fines are not punishment. They are meant to be deterrents for others. Men who have whisky must go home in taxis Senior-Sergeant Edwards said that the case was not as serious as some others had been, but accused was under the influence of liquor. He was not, however, bad enough to be arrested for drunkenness. Boyd was fined £25 and his license was not cancelled on condition that he prohibits himself. Woodville, Sept. 23. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr S. L. Free, S.M., Jolm Thomas Wlatson, for being found in charge of a motor car while intoxicated, was fined £lO and his license was cancelled until April Ist, 1928. It was pointed out that a previous convictiin for a similar offence was on record.