INTOXICATED IN CAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 10

INTOXICATED IN CAR.

MAORI LOSES LICENSE.

"BEST WAY TO PROTECT PUBLIC."

14s lie was about to drive away from Station Street, Newmarket, in a motor car. ehortly after 5 o'clock on Saturday "afternoon," Paul Pompey* aged 21, a halfcaste Maori, was taken into .custody 'Ljf/a constable on a charge/of, befog iri a Estate of intoxication while in* Charge of,;:.Hhe vehicle. This morniniv he appeared at the Police Court and pleaded guilty. Petective Sergeant Kelly said the con stable eaw accused go to the car an< sit. at the wheel. He was obviously un de¥ the iiiflucnce of liquor. There wa: no"!need 'for him to drive, as -anothie man in the car had a license and wa; quite sober..

;Mr, K. Aekins, who represented accused, said he was a, hard-working yoiing man employed by Chinese in a gajden at Papatoetoe. On Saturday he Shad several "half-handles" of been' at Ot&huhu before leaving for Aucl'.liind to gotto the pictures. He had no' drink at iN"ewmarket. , .

*'rhe best way to protect the ..public, inisuch a case is to fine him £iO?a*pd cancel his license for two years,": ssiidz tile", magistrate, Mr. W. H" Woodwavd. ,

Six weeks' imprisonment wae fixed.as! the default, and Pompey was aljow.ed a sndnth in which to j>ay his fine^lf'. V