“DRINK IS YOUR TROUBLE”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 9

“DRINK IS YOUR TROUBLE”

CARTERTON MAN BEFORE COURT. OBSERVATION OF MAGISTRATE. ("Times-Age” Special.) “It is nothing but a storm in a teacup,” observed Mr C. C. Marsack in the Carter ton Magistrate’s Court yesterday when three charges were preferred against L. W. Nimodt.

Nimodt was charged with being a prohibited person, he entered the Royal Oak Hotel, that he failed to leave when ordered to do so by the licensee, and that he used insulting language in the public bar.

Mr Marsack submitted that one conviction would suffice. Defendant, he said, was in a hopeless financial position. Any penalty inflicted would weigh very heavily on his wife and family. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., said: “If I fine him his wife will suffer. He must realise that if he does not act reasonably in the future, he will be in serious trouble.”

When asked if he had anything to say defendant said: “guilty.” Mr Lawry: “There is not much that you can say. You know that your trouble is drink. It seems that you have no respect: for the Court when, with a prohibition order out against you. you try io get liquor. Ever since I have been coming here during the past four years you have been before Court on some charge or other. When vou take liquor you are taking something from your wife and family. I will convict you on the charge of being found on licenced premises and order you to come up for sentence if “ailed upon within twelve months. You are receiving this leniency because of your wife and family. But for them you would be fined at least £3.