HAILED WRONG MAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 2

HAILED WRONG MAN.

CALL TO A CONSTABLE. CAR DRIVER ARRESTED. To be hailed bv a man on the outskirts of AVoodville and asked to produce his driver’s license was the experience of Constable Skinner on Monday afternoon, but when the constable interviewed the man. who was himself driving a car, other events followed. The man, Norman Olsen, of Owhango. appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Woodville, yesterdav, before Messrs S ; Turnbull and D. Keay. J.P.’s, charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a car. He pleaded guilty and was fined £l2 10s and ordered to pay the doctor’s tee. His driving license was cancelled and lie was prohibited from obtaining another for 12 months. In addition, be was fined 10s and costs for not being in possession of a driver’s license. Evidence was given that when the constable was hailed he stopped his car and went back to the man who had summoned him. The man was then seated at the driving wheel of a stationary car, and the constable informed him that, he was not in a fit condition to drive it._ The man then drove off. through side and eventually toward Palmerston North. He was ' arrested half a mile within the Manawatu Gorge. Before the man and his companion could leave Woodville yesterday oil the continuation of their journey, which was to the Main Trunk area, a companion bad to undergo a test with the Woodville Borough Council’s officer and obtain a driving license, so that he could take charge of the car for the remainder of the journey.