INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 5

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

FARM LABOURER FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Charged with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motorcar in Taranaki- Street on Friday, Charles Keith Stuart, farm labourer, aged 22. was convicted and fined £2 in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, on Saturday. Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey said Traffic-Inspector A. J. Archer saw accused and another man get into a car and later found accused slumped over the wheel. The ignition keys of the car could not be found. A z doctor later certified Stuart as being in a condition unfit to drive. Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., said he took the view in these cases that there must be some manifestation that it was clear the accused intended to drive the vehicle. In this case, although he entered the car, he did not have the ignition keys. DUNEDIN CASES. TWO MEN FINED £2O. a. DUNEDIN, July 2. Intoxicants taken to relieve heavy colds brought trouble on two motorists, Thompson Vickers (67) and Kenneth Lawrence Kearney (24), each being fined £2O and having his licence suspended for a year. The former was driving his car and the latter was found sitting in his car about four o’clock this morning.