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MOTOR-DRIVER IN COURT. MAGISTRATE IMPOSES FINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In consequence of what a motorcyclist said, a traffic inspector got on his pillion and followed a car, driven into Wellington from the Hutt by Robert Dawson, a wire-worker. The inspector stopped Dawson and took him to the police station, where he was medically examined for intoxication. A doctor certified that he was unfit to be in charge of a car, but gave no detail of the tests. This was stressed in the Magistrate’s Court by counsel for Dawson, who urged that particular attention should, in the absence of such detail, be given to what the sub-inspector had said as to the man’s condition at the police station, which was that he appeared somewhat normal, but slumped a little after the medical examination.
Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., said it was not a case for imprisonment. He imposed a fine of £l5 and cancelled the licence for a period of 12 months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1938, Page 6
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