LEFT BY THE WAYSIDE

NZ Truth, Issue 1191, 27 September 1928, Page 10

LEFT BY THE WAYSIDE

Farmer Who Forgot Chivalry of Knights of Old (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.) A man, a girl, some wine arid a driving lesson. A zig-zag course, a crash and then — . Well, pretty Olive Storey is now m the care of the Sahatiori Arm's and she will be m good hands for the next eleven months. Her friend, Alexander Hamilton, a well-known Springston farmer, who forgot that there was such a word as chivalry, was fined £20 and was relieved of his driving license for a period. - Magistrate Mosley expressed himself rather forcibly on Hamilton's conduct, so, m a measure, Olive Storey was not left alone to pay the price of her folly.

TJAMILTON has now given his last IT driving lesson for two-ahd-a-half ■ years. The court has taught him that it is a dangerous practice to attempt to impart the wonders of automobile control to a drunken woman. Hamilton was the person who, some two or three weeks ago left pretty Olive Storey to spend, the ■ night- m gaol. The girl was arrested for drunkenness and for swearing, but Hamilton at the time was too sober to fall within the reach of the Jaw, and he left the girl to her fate making' no effort to have her l-eleased on bail, or to have her represented by counsel when she appeared, m court the next morning. : Perliaps-4n Springston they have not heard of. such a thing as helping a comrade m distress. Hamilton and the girl had been drinking at an hotel m the city during the afternoon. They left the hotel some time' after 6 p.m. 1 , when .the. girl, who was well m her cups, expressed. a. desire to learn to drive Hamilton's car. ■ He allowed her to occupy the driving seat, the while keeping his hand oh the' wheel., ■■'■ ' ".■■■'-' '■ "■ They negotiated the Square successfully, but when m Cambridge- Terrace, near the V.M.C.A., they ran into a stationary car. :. ■ . .The police, at this stage, arrested] Olive* but Hamilton was allowed to go. After spending the night m gaol, Olive was given the option by Magistrate Mpsley of going to gaol or .spending twelve ; months m the Salvation Army women's home. . ' , She chose the latter and for the next eleven months she will do penance for the ' unhappy ending^tb their otherwise successful little party. ; : ■• . ■ VXiaAvysi? J. .Stacey. dia "what ha

could for Hamilton who. was called on last week to defend him self" against a charge of driving to the danger of the public. The S.M. expressed, himself very forcibly on Hamilton's fitness to be m charge of a car, and commented on the unsavory circumstances surrounding the case. "There is nothing to be said for a man who gets a young girl into trouble like this," he declared. Hamilton was fined £20 and prohibited from driving until April, 1931, and was warned that if he came before the court again he would go to gaol. .