INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1938, Page 10

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

KAKATAHI MAORI FINED £5. WANGANUI, April 11. “It was only the vigilance of the police that saved you from driving this car —had you done so you would have been fined heavily,” commented Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, today, when imposing a fine of £5 and costs, in default one month’s imprisonment, on a Maori, James Green, Kakatahi, who pleaded not guilty to having been in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car in Ridgway Street on March 19. Green was allowed one month to pay the fine. His licence was cancelled for 12 months. CHARGE ADMITTED. ECHO OF PLUNGE INTO CREEK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 11. “This man was unfortunate in that when he tried to attract the attention of passing motorists it was a traffic inspector who came to his assistance,” stated, counsel when Albert John Sanders, aged 27, whose truck left the road and plunged into a creek near Green Island on the night of April 2, admitted that he had been intoxicated. Sanders and his two companions had a narrow escape from drowning. Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., fined defendant £lO and suspended his licence for 12 months.