HOW MANY, DRINKS?
UNTRUSTWORTHY EVIDENCE,
A MAGISTRATE'S EXPERIENCE, (By Telegraph.—Own HAWERA, this day, A fine of £10 was meted out to Henry Thomas S. Downs, an Auckland traveller, charged in the Police Court yesterday with having been intoxicated when in charge of a car. Defendant's driving license was not cancelled, the magistrate exercising leniency in view of the. circumstance that Downs was not driving and had not driven the car. The defence was that defendant swayed in his normal walk and spoke incoherently in normal speech, being of nervous disposition. The magistrate said that the evidence of men in Downs' position was worthless. Men had a common tendency to minimise the number of drinks they had consumed, because it was known that no one could contradict them.. There were invariably tales of "pony shandies," and very rarely did a man admit drinking whisky. If the police evidence were disbelieved it would mean holding the whole of the Hawera police incompetent.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 133, 7 June 1929, Page 5
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