MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 217, 13 August 1937, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

WELLINGTON CASE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 13. Following a bump into a stationary car with a friend’s car he had borrowed, Samuel Beattie, a waterside worker, was to-day fined £6 and costs for being intoxicated while in charge of a car, and was disqualified from obtaining a driver’s license for twelve months. On a charge of driving without a license he was convicted and discharged. The story told was that he got the key to get some things out of the car and, while doing so, thought he would drive to his wife’s sister’s place to get her to intercede with his own wife, who had had words with him over his drinking. On the way the car broke down and a mechanic fixed it for him, but would take no payment, so they had two drinks. He and his wife’s father had had several drinks earlier in the day. Counsel said the husband and wile were now reconciled.

PENALTY AT AUCKLAND,

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, Aug. 13. A fine of £ls and the cancellation of liis motor license for twelve months was the penalty imposed in the Police Court this morning on William Thonvis Wain, aged 40, a masseur, of Gisborne, for being in a state of intoxication while in charge °f a motor car in Remuera Road yesterday afternoon.

The police said the car struck the rear wheel of a bicycle in Newmarket, and the car stopped almost at the moment of impact. It was seen that Wain was unsteady on his feet. Threequarters of an hour later a doctor certified tha.t he was under the influence of liquor, although not drunk, and that it was unsafe for him to be in charge of a car. Counsel said Wain bad a considerable practice in Gisborne and asked that, if it was found necessary to deal with- the license, the period of cancellation should be brief.