"MENACE TO PUBLIC'

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 315, 31 August 1932, Page 4

"MENACE TO PUBLIC'

NOT FIT TO BE ON ROJfc ~-j- •• ■•••••* ■ ^ -i # ■ BftJt DRUNKEN LORRY DRIVERI FINED AND LICENSE |_ CANCELLED. VD ■As ARRESTED IN ARAWA STRElfce Described by both police and be*?* as a menace to the public, a yoBj1' Claudelands lorry driver nai* Charles Cauldwell Hooper, aged was yeserday fined £20 by Mr. aMJ' Holland and Mr H. Tai Mitchell, J.i^ in the Rotorua court for being fo«^ intoxicated in charge of a lorryff1 Arawa Street. Bf1 Senior-Sergt. Carroll, in outlin*° the eircumstances of the case, w1 that Hooper was apparently irrespj j sible and. totally unfit to be drivB. any vehicle on the roads. He M been convicted and placed on proy] tion for tivo years for dangerw1 driving, later he had been fined B' fighting, and again brought up foBhreach of his probation, which mP extended ' for a further six montB" Subsequent to this,.-he was fined ■ drunkenness in charge of a car M' later for using obscene language. It was ohvious, said the Senior-SB/ geant, that Hooper was a menace others and that . he was .d'ead to ■; sense of reason. He had complet®. failed to take advantage of the le» ency extended to him hy the hench R, previous occasions and the p-olice a» ed that his license be cancelled for least two years, in addition to a inonetary penalty which the ber thought fit to inflict. The bexich fined Hooper £20, ordei his driver's licenae to he cancelled, a prohibited him from ohtajning anott for two years from date. The eircumstances of the case we that the traffic inspector, Mr. D. Ford, noticed a lorry in Arawa Stre on Monday afternoon with a big.lo of posts, but no driver in attendam When he waited, Hooper appeared,^ companied by a mate, Hooper sta gering and being obviously under t influence of li.quor. The inspect asked who was the driver, each m stating that the other was. "Wh asked to drive the lorry to the weig bridge, hoth refused, Hooper sayii that his mate would drive and t mate stating that he could not dri and had only just commenced to lea that day. The lorry was driven the station by a member of the i speetor's staff and Hooper was a rested, his mate being quite sobi Hooper later stated that he had L a number of drinks at a country hot and that he had been overcome, h mate driving the" lorry from the hot to Whaka, where he refused to dri1 any further, having no license ar practieally no ' experience. This wi corroborated by the mate, and the a tion followed.