INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1938, Page 2

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

A NUMBER OF CASES. FINES OR IMPRISONMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, May 23. A Maori, Henry Hori Ketu, charged in the Magistrate's Court, Wanganui, today, was fined £2O and his licence was cancelled for 12 months, on a charge of having been drunk in charge of a motor vehicle. The magistrate, Mr J. H. Salmon, said that he had some hesitation whether he should impose a fine at all. Senior-Sergeant L. R. Capp said that Ketu’s car had pulled up alongside a line of cars parked in Campbell Place. When one of the drivers in this line had asked Ketu to move on so that he could get out, Ketu refused to do so. A constable, who came on the scene later, had stated that Ketu was in a state that warranted his being locked tip for drunkenness. Ketu was allowed one month in which to pay. GREYMOUTH, May 23. John Walter Baxter, contractor, was convicted of having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor-lorry and sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M. His licence was suspended until May 31,1940. On a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor-ve-hicle, Wilfred James Wood, showman,

Dunedin, was fined £lO and costs £4 10s Bd, and his licence suspended until May 31, 1940, in the Magistrate’s Court Greymouth, today. On a charge of having failed to give his name on request a conviction was entered without penalty. GISBORNE, May 23. A labourer, Charles Stuart Binnie, aged 24, was fined £l5 and costs this morning by Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., on a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor-truck in Gisborne on Saturday evening. Accused pleaded guilty. Excessive speed and the noise made by the vehicle attracted the attention of a traffic inspector. Accused’s licence was cancelled for one year. HAMILTON, May 23. Reference to the recent epidemic of motorists being intoxicated in charge of motor vehicles was made by the magistrate, Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., today when he convicted Ernest Stuart, barman, Ohakune, of having been intoxicated in charge of a car near Hamilton on March 15. Accused was fined £25 and his licence was cancelled for two years.