SUNSTROKE!

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 3

SUNSTROKE!

DENIED HE WAS DRUNK. STREET MEETING DISTURBED. FUN AT POLICE COURT. j "This is the first time I have been in J a Court, and it will be the last.'' said a first-offending inebriate at the Police Court this morning. This very garrulous man was quite emphatic that he was not drunk yesterday. And so Constable Paterson was called to state that when he arrested accused he was making a noise and disturbing people. He was quite drunk. ! Accused: Can I ask a question? Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M.: Yes, you may. Accused: Well, what am I going to iask the constable? "I'm sure I don't know," replied Mr. McKean. "Well you ought to, you are a magis-j trate. Look here, constable, I just asked j you a fair question—what stuck the Ulimaroa up, didn't I?" Constable Paterson: You were talking Red-Fed stuff and ships. "No, I was sunstruck, not drunk, and you know it, constable. To get down to a tine point, I asked you a civil question and you shot me in." Detective Alsopp said that yesterday afternoon accused was disturbing a meeting in Quay Street. He was under the influence of drink. Last night when he was arrested he was even worse and was holding a meeting by himself. Accused persisted in telling the Court that he was suffering from sunstroke and not the effects of drink. "Well, you are fined 10/ for getting sunstroke," said the magistrate.