Costly Scotch

NZ Truth, Issue 1144, 3 November 1927, Page 7

Costly Scotch

KEEPING out the cold with Scotch •** whisky may be quite permissible to the ordinary run of citizens, but the habit is fraught with great risks when indulged m by taxi-drivers. This little truism has been brought home vividly to Frederick William John Garlick, a licensed taxi-driver, of Christchurch. Garlick braved the. bitter southerly gale which made all Canterbury shiver on Labor Day and went to the races at Rangiora. To keep the cold out he had a couple of whiskies with a friend, drove home late m the afternoon, dropped his companion m the city, and shortly afterwards collided with another car. The police arrived, collected Fred, and. haled him before S.M. Mosley, to whom he pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated while iri charge of a car. 1 "This man deserves no consideration at all," said the bench. "The only question I am considering is whether I should send him to gaol." But a £20 fine and a cancelled licence was the penalty.