POTENT WINE ?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 294, 12 December 1935, Page 10

POTENT WINE ?

MAN DRUNK ON TRAIN.

LABOURER'S ESCAPADE."

Charges' of being .found drunk in a railway carriage, of travelling from Helensville -to . Newmarket and evading payment of his train fare, 3/10, and procuring liquor while prohibited 'weie admitted by Samuel John Ross, aged 31, labourer, in the Police Court this morning.

Sub-Inspector Scott said that Ross boarded the express at. Helensville yesterday afternoon and on arrival at Newmarket at 5.30 .p.m. was arrested for drunkenness. Ross did not pay his fare. He had been convicted for two previous breaches of his prohibition order. -

"This was not a deliberate breach of a prohibition order," said Mr. W.-Noble, who appeared for Boss. "Ross met temptation at Heleiisville yesterday, in the guise of a Dalmatian wine traveller who°had a case of. wine .with liim. Ross was drunk when he boarded tlie train and did not. realise that he was travelling to Auckland.' The wine must have been fairly potent stuff."

Counsel added that Ross was working on a farm near Helensville and could pay the fines if given a few days' _ grace. For the- third-breach of his prohibition order,/Ross was fined £1 10/, _or seven days'"rapTisonmeht-. Fined 5/ for drunkenness, he was a-lso fined the same amount for evasion of his railway fare, plus the amount- of the fare. He was allowed a week in which to pay.