INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 3

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

MECHANIC SENT TO GAOL By Telegraph.—Press Association, DANNEVIRKE, April 18. In the Magistrates’ Court, Dannevirke, before justices of the peace. Karl Wilfred Torval Christiansen, motor mechanic, who was charged with having been intoxicated while in charge of a car, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment and his driver's licence was cancelled for two years. PENSIONER FINED By Telegraph.—Press Association. PALMERSTON NORTH, April 19. Alfred Ireland, aged 65, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Palmerston North, this morning, and pleaded guilty to having been in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car on the Himatangi highway on Easter Saturday. He was convicted and fined £5 and costs, his licence was cancelled and he was prohibited from obtaining another for five years. He was allowed to pay the fine and costs at the rate of £3 a month. Senior-Sergeant J. Mclntyre, prosecuting, said Ireland was in receipt of a pension. The magistrate took defendant’s age into consideration when imposing the fine. AUCKLAND OFFENDERS FINED (By Telegragh—Press Association). AUCKLAND, April 19. “If people go out to parties and have beer they had better telephone for a taxi and leave their cars behind them,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court today, addressing Harry Patrick Carr, aged 27, engineer’s fitter, Huntly, who had been remanded after his arrest in Symonds Street early yesterday morning. The police said that Carr came originally from Gisborne, his parents being most respectable people. Counsel said Carr had gone to a party and had two or three bottles of beer. There was no question of any traffic collision. Carr was convicted and fined £35, in default two months’ imprisonment, and his licence was cancelled for 12 months. John Edward King, aged 32, salesman, admitted intoxication while in charge of a car in "France Street last evening. The police said that King was trying to start a car in the middle of the road. King was fined £5O, in default three months’ imprisonment, and his licence was cancelled for two years. SEQUEL TO A COLLISION By Telegraph.—Press Association. TIMARU, April 19. “This is a serious offence and you are fortunate that you are not charged with a more serious offence in that you might have killed someone in the other car,’ said Mr H. Morgan, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court this morning, when Michael Joseph Brosnahan, labourer, ager 50, Kerrytown, pleaded guilty to intoxication while in charge of a car. He was fined £2O and his licence was cancelled until June 1, 1939. He was ordered to pay medical expenses. The charge was a sequel to a collision near Arowhenua on Saturday night, when Brosnahan veered into an approaching vehicle containing four passengers, one of whom was thrown through the windscreen and suffered minor injuries. Brosnahan was injured also. Both vehicles were exten-j sively damaged.