INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 9

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

CONTRACTOR FINED £25 (By Telegraph—Press Association.) . DUNEDIN, August 15. “Notwithstanding numerous warnings, this class of offence continues to persist,” said the magistrate, Mr H. W. Bundle, when Thomas Hand Ferguson, aged 25, contractor, admitted a charge of having driven a truck while intoxicated. “In each case it is urged that the licence means the man’s livelihood, but in each case the court has to consider public interests,” said the magistrate. “I am quite unable to accede to this request. The only question is whether the defendant should be imprisoned.” Ferguson was fined £25 and his licence was suspended for 12 months.

SEQUEL TO DRINKING PARTY WANGANUI ACCUSED FINED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, August 15. “I can't imagine a more serious case than this; it is only because of your youth and because there has been nothing against you so far, and you have a mother to support, that I will not impose imprisonment,” said Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wanganui, today, when he fined Lawrence Henry Clark, aged 23, £25 and costs, and prohibited him from holding a licence to drive for two years, for having been in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car on the Town Bridge on August 13. Senior-Sergeant L. R. Capp said the police were called to a motor accident on the southern side of the Town Bridge on Saturday night. They found a passenger in the car bleeding freely. He was taken to hospital but later was allowed to go home. Clark was intoxicated. He hald been to a drinking party at Putiki and had borrowed a car from a Maori to drive one of the party home. On approaching the bridge he took a course on the wrong side and ran into the side of the bridge. An empty fivg-gallon keg and an empty beerjar were found in the car. Clark had stated that he knew nothing about them.