MOTORIST FINED £2O
INTOXICATION CHARGE WELL-KNOWN RACING OWNER (Special to THE SUN) MORRINSVILLE, To-day. On a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car, a farmer named Ernest Robinson was fined £2O, and his driving licence was cancelled for six months, at the Morrinsville Court. Robinson had collided with another car on Kereone Road on June 15. Keith Boden, a commercial traveller, who was driving the other car, said that he could see Robinson was driving an erratic course when he was a quarter of a mile away. After the collision, when he was accosted. Robinson was muddled, and smelt of drink. Robinson, in evidence, denied that he was drunk, and said he had had only a “pony” beer. Robinson is a w'ell-know'n racing man, being the owner of Flying Juliet.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 1
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133MOTORIST FINED £20 Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 1
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