SOLICITOR FINED £25.
DRUNK IN CHARGE OF CAR.
[THE PBEBS Special Service.]
WELLINGTON, July 19.
A charge of being intoxicated while driving a motor-car early last evening was admitted by Lionel L 'Estrange Edwards, solicitor, aged 35, in the Magistrate's Court this afternoon.
Sub-Inspector Harvey said that at 6.5- p.m. the defendant was driving along Elizabeth street, when he collided with a horse and cart going in the same direction. The police were called, and Edwards was taken to the Mount Cook police station, where a doctor, after examining him, certified that he was unfit to be in charge of a car.
■ -Mr Page, S.M.: The Courts are not prone to look lightly on cases of this sort. People who are intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car are a danger not only to themselves but also to the other people. A fine of £25 was imposed, and the defendant's ?**ense was suspended for 12 months.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19057, 20 July 1927, Page 13
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