SIX WEEKS' GAOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 9

SIX WEEKS' GAOL.

INTOXICATED IN CAR. WARNING DISREGARDED. (0.C.) <;ISBOi;XK. thirr day. Sentence <>f mx wpckti" imprisonment was passed liy Justice* of the Peace in tlie Wairoa Police Court on Jack .Johnson, 18. a Maori, on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a car on the Gisborne-Wairoa road. Accused's license was cance!le<l and lie was debarred from obtaining another until he reached 21 years. Describing the ease as a very serious one, Sergeant .Moore said that accused had borrowed a car in an endeavour to try and overtake the Maliia bu«. one of the occupants of the car having mi.-r.ed. Accused, however, went out to Frasertown first and had :i few beers, and then decided to chase the bus. About 10 miles from Wairoa he crashed when negotiating a corner at high speed into a telegraph pole, and the car somersaulted some distance away. "If you taw tiie wrecked car von would marvel that no one ainonir the seven Maoris was killed." ...aid the sergeant". -All the Maoris were under the influence of liquor. Last month a trallic inspector warned accused against drinking while driving." The accused .said he was verv sleepy and did not want to drive the ear, but was forced to do so by the other occupants. Mr. Marker. J.P.. said the accused took no notice of the warnings given him. Had he killed anyone he would, in that condition, have been a murderer! just as much as a person who went out with a gun.