TWO WEEKS IN GAOL
AWARDED TO INTOXICATED driver: ATTEMPT TO EVADE POLICEMAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Imprisonment for two weeks with hard labour, without the option of a fine, cancellation of his licence and prohibition from obtaining another for a year, were imposed on Joseph Blatchford, a baker, aged 33, by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., for being intoxicated while in charge of a car. A constable saw a car come out of a street, without lights, at 2 a.m., and stood in the roadway to stop the vehicle. The driver swept round him and collided with a stationary car. The degree of intoxication was not great, the Sub-Inspector said, and accused had not previously been before the Court.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 8
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