CELEBRATING PICNIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 893, 10 February 1930, Page 1

CELEBRATING PICNIC

INTOXICATED DRIVER FINED £lO DRIVING LICENCE LOST Celebrating the holiday which he had taken on account of the bakers' picnic, Charles Jacob Hegh was arrested on Saturday afternoon for being intoxicated In charge of a motor-car. This morning, at the Police Court, he was fined £lO and his driving licence was cancelled. Hegh, a baker, aged 35, was charged with being Intoxicated in charge of a motor-car in Ponsonby Road and pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant O’Grady attributed Hegh’s condition to the fact that it was the day of the bakers’ picnic. “Hegh works long hours as a rule,” he said. “On Saturday he had a holiday which I think he must have been celebrating.” Accused had run into the back of a stationary car in Ponsonby Road. It was quite light at the time. “Hegh has a wife and seven children and earns about £5 a week,” added the senior-sergeant. .“It is not a bad case.” Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Can you keep a wife, seven children and run your own car on £5 a week?” Hegh: Well you see we were out at Mangere and we had to have the car. The Magistrate: I don’t want to hear that. It was just the financial working I was interested in. Hegh was given 14 days in which to find the £lO fine. His driving licei**e was cancelled for six months and default of the fine was fixed at one month’s imprisonment.