TOOK LIQUID FOOD
HAWKER WHO STEERED ERRATIC COURSE NO “HANDLES” FOR YEAR Cups of tea and “soft” drinks will have to refresh John Thomas Edwards for the next 12 lponths. Edwards, a fruit hawker, was charged in the Onehunga Police Court this morning with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-van. Sergeant Cruickshank said that Edwards was intoxicated while in charge oi a motor-van in Queen Street, Onehunga, at 6 p.m. on Saturday. The erratic course taken by the van, which ultimately came to rest against a telegraph pole, attracted the attention of Constable Wilks, who arrested accused. Accused was usually a decent fellow and this was his first offence. Dr. W. Howard Thomas certified that when he examined the accused at 7 p.m. he was slightly under the influence of alcohol and not in a fit state to drive a car. Edwards pleaded guilty and said, “I had nothing to eat all day and only had a couple of handles of beer.” He consented to the issue of a prohibition order and Messrs. J. E. Green and J. E. Cowell, J.P’s, imposed a fine of £5 and prohibited him for 12 months.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 545, 24 December 1928, Page 18
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194TOOK LIQUID FOOD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 545, 24 December 1928, Page 18
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