DRUNKEN DRIVER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1938, Page 14

DRUNKEN DRIVER

FINE OF £l5. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., December 19. Pleading guilty to having been in a state of intoxication while driving a motor-truck in Church Street on December 14, Albert Thomas Russell, salesman, aged 51, was convicted and fined £l5, ordered to pay medical expenses. and prohibited from obtaining another licence for 18 months, by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston North, today. On a further charge of not having a current driver’s licence, Russell was fined £l. Inspector .1. Cummings said that on December 14 Russell was observed by a constable to be driving a motor-truck erratically. Subsequently accused was found to be in a state of intoxication, not badlv, but bad enough for him not to be in charge of the vehicle. There was' no other traffic about at the time. SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT. AUCKLAND, December 19. A sentence of seven days’ imprisonment was imposed on Leslie James McPike, motor mechanic, Onehunga, in the Magistrate’s Court today for intoxication in charge of a motor-car on Saturday afternoon. The police said that the car collided with a motor-cycle but did not damage it. The magistrate, Mr F. H. Levien, also fined McPike 20s and costs 25s for not having a driver’s licence. McPike pleaded guilty to both charges.