MOTORIST BEFORE COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 4

MOTORIST BEFORE COURT

ON CHARGE OF INTOXICATION. £lO FINE AND DRIVERS’ LICENCE CANCELLED. At a sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this morning Francis Joseph McArley, stock buyer, of Masterton, appeared before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.. on a charge of having been in a state of intoxication w'hile in charge of a motor-car in Renall Street on April 19. The defendant pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett stated that the charge arose out of a collision which had taken place at the intersection of Chapel and Renall streets. When taken to the police station McArley was examined by Dr J. C. Forsyth and certified as being intoxicated. He was an hour out when asked to tell the time from his watch.

“It is obvious that the defendant had consumed a pretty considerable amount of liquor,” said Mr Lawry. He asked for the defendant’s signature which he compared with the signature to McArley’s statement on the night of his arrest.

Mr M, Blaythwaite, Martinborough, who appeared for the defendant, asked the Magistrate to exercise his discretion under the Act which would enable McArley to retain his driver’s licence. “It. has ceased to become an extenuating circumstance so far as a man’s livelihood is concerned," observed Mr Lawry, in convicting the defendant and fining him £lO. and £1 Ils costs. McArley's driver's licence was cancelled for 12 months.