COLLISION AT ROYAL OAK.
ONE DRIVER INTOXICATED. FINED £ls AND LICENSE CANCELLED. ■ Charged with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor car on Saturday, Robert Leonard McGregor, an engineer, was to-day fined £ls and had his license cancelled for six months,by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., at the Onehunga Court. Accused pleaded not guilty. Sergeant Brown, in evidence, said that about 6.30 p.m. on Saturday he went to the Monument at Eoyal Oak, where'he found that two motor cars had collided. Accused, the driver of one, was drunk, and was arrested. In reply to a question by counsel, Sergeant Brown said that accused was staggering about and was not able to answer questions coherently. He was not only intoxicated; he was drunk." A constable gave corroborative evidence and said two other men in the car were intoxicated. Counsel for McGregor said accused had asked at the time that the police be sent for, and that was not the action of a drunken man. He ha'& drunk only two shandies.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19311207.2.28
Bibliographic details
Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 289, 7 December 1931, Page 3
Word Count
174COLLISION AT ROYAL OAK. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 289, 7 December 1931, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in