DRUNKEN MOTORISTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 4

DRUNKEN MOTORISTS

THREE CONVICTIONS By Talerraon—Hr*** AwoolaUoaJ AUCKLAND, 17th July. Frederick Pallette, aged 27, a motordriver, wag charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with having been found intoxicated in charge of a motor-car on Saturday afternoon. A further charge of driving without a driver’s licence was also preferred against the accused, who admitted both offences. It was stated that the accused would have been arrested for drunkenness even if he had not been in charge of a car. Reading the accused’s list of previous convictions, the Magistrate (Mr F. K. Hunt) remarked that he had been before the Court sixteen times, including three times for unlawfully converting cars. “He has no licence or I would cancel it, but no licence ip- to be issued to this man for two years,” continued the Magistrate, who imposed a fine of £2O. The accused, who was allowed fourteen days in which to pay, was convicted and discharged on the two other charges. “This case seems to he different from the others,” remarked Mr Hunt, when a charge of being intoxicated when in charge of a motor car was preferred, against Thomas John Harris, aged 42, a motor driver. The accused said he had become wet while working on Saturday morning, and had taken rum and cloves. He was not used to spirits, and when he felt it beginning to affect him he pulled his vehicle up. He lit a cigarette and then fell asleep. “Will you take out a prohibition or-, der if I leave you your licence?/ asked tlie Magistrate. On the accused agreeing, the Magistrate imposed a fine of £5, and ordered the issue of a prohibition order A fine of £25 was imposed on Leonard Henrv Nicholson, aged 33, who was charged in, the Onehunga Magistrate’s Court with being intoxicated when in charge of a motor car. The police evidence was to the effect, that the accused and a friend had been seen in a car steering an erratic course through Onehunga. They had both been drinking.