DRUNKEN MOTORIST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3901, 31 January 1929, Page 3

DRUNKEN MOTORIST.

FINED AND PREVENTED FROM DRIVING. Palmerston N., Jan. 30. Found drunk in charge of a car in Pahiatua Street last evening, Harold iCatton, electrical engineer, of 21 Linton Street, ivas this morning fined £ls and costs in the Magistrate’s Court by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., and also had his driver’s license suspended for tAvelve months. He pleaded guilty. Senior Sergeant Whitehouse said he saiv accused several times last night and he was “mad drunk.” There was no doubt he was a high-ly-strung man and drink had a serious effect on him. He did not know AVha't. he Avas saying or doing. He had formerly been in a similar condition in Martinborougb when lie Avas lined £lO and also £5 for resisting the police. The senior Sergeant saw him this morning and he was thoroughly ashamed of himself.

When the Magistrate commented it Avas a second offence accused said the previous one Avas a long time ago, in 1925. The Senior Sergeant said accused had assured him that in future he Avould give drink a Avide berth. When the Magistrate proposed to cancel the driving license accused said it Avas his means of livelihood, but was told by the Magistrate. that that could not be helped. Accused Avas allowed two months in .which to pay the fine. FINED FOR DANGEROUS DRIVING. Hamilton, January 30. A fine of £2O Avas imposed on Miles R, Nitz, a lorry driver of Auckland, for dangerous driving. Defendant ran down a six-year-old son of Mr. Herbert Green, a farmer, of Frankton Street, on January 1. The Magistrate concluded that defendant’s speed was too fast.