INTOXICATED MOTORIST
THREE WEEKS’ IMPRISONMENT H - (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 24. Remarking that it was a bad case of its kind and that a monetary penalty would fall on an already poor family, Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., sentenced Robert Morland Phillips, aged 60, to three weeks’ imprisonment for intoxication in charge of a motortruck on a main highway near Albany. Phillipps, a lame man using a stick, appeared on summons. The police said that a traffic inspector saw the truck travelling on the wrong side of the road rounding a bend. When Phillips stopped the truck he was drunk and staggering. Phillips used the truck to cart firewood. He had a family of 12 and had not been in trouble before. Counsel for the defence said that Phillips was in a desperate position financially, earning only a precarious living. He had eight children at home, five under 13 years. “Evidently the expenditure of money on liquor to the poverty of his family has not worried him,” said the magistrate. Phillips: Will there be any money going out to my family at home? They are left with only Gs. The magistrate: That will be attended to.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1938, Page 2
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197INTOXICATED MOTORIST Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1938, Page 2
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