NAVAL RATING FINED
o—INTOXICATION IN CHARGE OF CAR. THE HERETAUNGA COLLISION. (By Telegraph—Press Asociation.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Colin Spencer Young, a naval rating, arrested following on a road collision at Heretaunga yesterday, was charged at the Upper Hull S.M. Court today with having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car and with having no driver's licence. On the first charge he was fined £25 or’ a month in prison and was prohibited from obtaining a licence till 1941. On the other charge he was also fined and ordered to pay costs. The captain of the ship on which accused was employed put in a plea that accused should not. be imprisoned, as his services were indispensable. Mr A. M. Goulding S.M.. said that if the plea had not been made he would have sent Young to gaol. Eight persons were injured in the collision, not seven, the addition to the list being Richard Gard, 24 who was also in Young's ear. His injuries were slight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 6
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166NAVAL RATING FINED Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 6
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