DRUNK IN A CAR.
FIXED AND DELICENSED. A PETONE INCIDENT. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Petone police, at 5.25 on Saturday, received word that a motorist, evidently in a drunken condition, had narrowly avoided a collision on the Hutt Road. Idle driver was subsequently arrested. He appeared before Messrs A. Coles and D. G. McEwen, J.P.’s, at • the Petone Court to-day, charged with bavin 2 been drunk while in charge of a car. The Senior Sergeant said that when arrested accused was very drunk, and by no means in a fit state to drive a car. Mr Mazengarb (for accused) pleaded guilty, but submitted that his client had an excellent character, and the lapse was not likely to be repeated. Accused was fined £lO, but the Justices ordered the suppression of the name, though they cancelled the license till March 31.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 75, 9 January 1928, Page 4
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