INTOXICATED IN CAR
DRIVER IMPRISONED Arrested on Saturday night, Norman Harold Churches, farm hand, aged 31, appeared in the Police Court to-day, before Mr. J. Morling, S.M., and admitted that he was in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor car in Queen Street. He also pleaded guilty to charges of driving without a license and failing to have a warrant of fitness for a car.
About 10.50 p.m. on Saturday, said Sub-Inspector McNamara, a traffic inspector noticed a car being driven in an erratic manner in Queen Street, and ordered the driver to stop. Churches, who was the driver, was seen to be under the influence of liquor. Later a doctor certified that he was unfit to have charge of the vehicle. In 1932, Churcfies was before the Court on a similar charge.
Churches told the magistrate that he was willing to take out a prohibition ocder. He also said he was a married man with three children.
On the intoxication charges Churches was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment, and on the other two counts he was convicted and discharged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 260, 3 November 1941, Page 8
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