DRUNKEN MOTORISTS
A BUSHMAN FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, January 5. In the Magistrates’ Court, James William Cadler (33), married, a bushman was fined £2O for having been intoxicated while in charge of a car. His driver’s licence was cancelled for 12 months. FINE OF £lO. , WELLINGTON, This Day. That he was a returned soldier and. at the farewell to the First Echelon, had met several of his former comrades in France and had a number of drinks with them was the excuse given by Alexander Lookmun, aged 57, when he appeared before Mr Goulding, S.M., in the Magistrates' Court. Wellington, on a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a car. He pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector E. T. C. Turner, who prosecuted, said that at 4 p.m. on Wednesday a car driven by Lookmun struck another vehicle in a city highway and shortly afterwal'd collided with a Irani. Lookmun was under the influence of liquor. “This is an unfortunate lapse," said Mi- Goulding in imposing a fine of £lO, with costs. Lookmun’s licence was cancelled, and he is prohibited from driving till May, 194].
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400106.2.102
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1940, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
186DRUNKEN MOTORISTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1940, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in