INTOXICATED IN CAR.
FOURTEEN DAYS’ IMPRISONMENT
CANCELLATION OF LICENCE
(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day
A plea by the defence that there had been no accident did not avail a defendant, John George Cummings, on a charge of intoxication while in charge of a car. The car was being driven in an erratic manner and was noticed by a traffic officer controlling the race traffic yesterday at Taita, and an arrest followed.
The Magistrate (Mr Goulding), at the hearing of the case at Lower Hutt, said that the vigilance of the officet was probably responsible for there being no accident. The Magistrate imposed a sentence of 14 days’ imprisonment with cancellation of the licence and payment of medical expenses.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19390705.2.78
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 224, 5 July 1939, Page 6
Word Count
119INTOXICATED IN CAR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 224, 5 July 1939, Page 6
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. 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 Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.