DRUNKEN MOTORIST ON HUTT ROAD
JUSTICES INFLICT FINE NAME SUPPRESSED Press Association. I WELLINGTON, To-day. At 5.25 o’clock on Saturday the Petone police received word that a motorist, evidently in a drunken condition, had narrowly avoided a collision on the Hutt Road. The driver was subsequently arrested and appeared before Messrs. A. Coles and D. G. McEwen, Justices of the Peace, at Petone Court to-day, and charged with being drunk while in charge of a car. The Senior Sergeant said that, when arrested, accused was very drunk and by no means in a fit state to drive a car. Mr. Mazengarb, for the accused, pleaded guilty, but submitted that his client had an excellent character and the lapse was not likely to be repeated. Accused was fined £lO, but the Justices ordered the suppression of his name, though cancelling his license till March 31. &
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 247, 9 January 1928, Page 11
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