INTOXICATED MOTORIST HEAVILY FINED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 13

INTOXICATED MOTORIST HEAVILY FINED

PENALTIES GOING UP COLLISION NEAR POLICE STATION VTALTER CLEGG, aged 3S. was '' unlucky yesterday. While driving a motor-car, after having consumed two bottles of stout, he collided with a motor-truck outside the Central Police Station. To-day lie pleaded guilty at the Police Court to a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motorcar in O’Rorke Street, and was fined £25. Senior-Sergeant Edwards described the collision and said that it was a marvel, that accused had gone so far without having a smash. A doctor who examined him certified that he was drunk. “I would ask you not to cancel his license,” said Mr. Allan Moody to the Magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, “he is a photographer and has to travel about a good deal.” The Magistrate: He can go about in a pony and trap. CAR NOT NEEDED NOW Counsel mentioned that damage amounting to £35 had been done to Clegg’s car. The Magistrate: He won’t be needing it for some time now. Accused was fined £25 and his licence cancelled for 12 months. Mr. Moody asked for a reduction in the fine because of the damage Clegg had done to his car. The Magistrate: The fines have been lighter lately, and that hasn't stopped them, so they’re going up again.