INTOXICATED MOTORIST
FARM LABOURER FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, June 13. William Thorne, charged in the Magistrates’ Court, Wanganui, today, before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., with being drunk in charge of a motor-car, was fined £2O and costs.
Senior-Sergeant L. R. Capp, said Thorne ran into a bank 7 while driving a car. He was found to be in an intoxicated condition and unfit to drive a car. Defendant’s explanation was that he had been suffering from a cold and had taken two whiskies to try to get rid of it. He had been pushed off the road by a car coming round a bend on its wrong side.
The magistrate said he would not cancel Thorne’s licence, as he was a farm labourer and used the car to get to work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1938, Page 5
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