INTOXICATED FARMER RUNS INTO FOUNTAIN
£lO PENALTY IMPOSED (From Our Own Correspondent) PUKEKOHE, To-day. A well-known young Puni farmer, Reginald Murphy, pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning to being intoxicated while in charge of a motorcar. It was explained that Murphy had a few drinks at an hotel on his way home at 6.5 p.m. It was a wet and stormy evening and when he swerved and applied his brakes to avoid running over a dog, the car skidded in King Street and careere/I on to the footpath, breaking a water fountain. The police gave accused a good character.
Counsel, Mr. E. G. Foster, claimed that Murphy had consumed, a sufficient amount of liquor to impair his faculties but not sufficient to make him incapable of driving a car. The magistrate, Mr. E. S. Cutten, S.M., in imposing a fine of £lO and costs of £1 7s, said there was no special circumstances to induce him to cancel or suspend accused’s licence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 463, 19 September 1928, Page 13
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164INTOXICATED FARMER RUNS INTO FOUNTAIN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 463, 19 September 1928, Page 13
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