INTOXICATED IN CARS.
two fines at Invercargill. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, November 24. Three persons v T ere charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with being in a state of intoxication while in charge ,of motor-cars. A youth of 18, concerning whom Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., said it was a case of a boy being led astray, was fined £5, and his licence was suspended for three months. John Baillie Hamilton, a farmer, of Morton Mains, was fined £2O, and prohibited from holding a licence for 12 months. “These cases are becoming far too frequent, and you are just a bit fortunate that you have not been given a term of imprisonment,” remarked the Magistrate to the acctised. The third case, in which William Hugh Piercy was charged, was dismissed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 39, 25 November 1937, Page 2
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