TAXI DRIVER FINED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 234, 3 October 1934, Page 3

TAXI DRIVER FINED.

INTOXICATION CHARGE.

KEG IN BACK OF CAR. With a keg of beev in the back of I.)is taxi, Gordon E-ric Smith, a taxi driver, aged 23, wne, discovered by two constables in the city just after three o'clock this morning-. He was arrested on a Charge of Icing in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor car in Nelson Street and was lined £10 by Mr. Wyvern Wilson. S.M., in the Police Court to-day. Hie license was cancelled for six months. Smith admitted the allegation. Inspector G. B. Edward* said that at 3.10 this morning two constables saw accused driving at a fast pace in Wellesley Street. The car swerved to the right, and a minute later the constables heard a crneh. Apparently the car had hit the kerb. When the constables arrived they saw accused looking into the back of hie car. There was a beer k-cg, and some of the contents had spilled on the floor. Accused smclled strongly of liquor, and when examined by a doctor at the police station, he was certified as being drunk. He had admitted to the constables that he had seven or eight drinks and that he was drunk. "I am pretty sure there was no crash, and I know nothing about the keg in. the back of the car," said Smith, when asked if he had anything to say. "I had been to a party to pick up some people. I dropped them, and when T was driving towards the garage I heard a rumble in the back of the car I stopped and found the keg , , but I knows nothing about the l>eor in the back." The Magistrate: Tt was not the beer in the back that was the cause of the trouble. It wae the beer in you.