DRUNK OR ILL?
CASE AT WAIHI At the Waihi Police Court on Saturday a commercial traveller from Hamilton. whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was fined £5 and costs for being drunk while in charge of a car. Counsel for accused pleaded that accused was ill and unable to eat, with th© result that the .three drinks he had taken had affected him. After his arrest he had been examined by a doctor who said that, while he was not absolutely drunk, he wits npt in a condition to drive a car. Defendant had never been in trouble before.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 271, 6 February 1928, Page 11
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100DRUNK OR ILL? Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 271, 6 February 1928, Page 11
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