INTOXICATED DRIVER FINED

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22309, 25 January 1938, Page 4

INTOXICATED DRIVER FINED

STOPPED TO OFFER HELP TO MOTORIST IPBCS6 4SSOCIATIOS TELEGBAK.I PALMERSTON M„ January 24. When Maurice Paul Nottingham, aged 46, a farmer, appeared before Mr

J. L. Stout. S.M., charged with intoxication while driving a bar. SeniorSergeant Mclntyre revealed unusual circumstances In the case. He said that two Highways Board traffic inspectors were assisting a motorist to mend a tyre when the accused arrived and inquired if they were all right. He was informed that they were, bid. continued to call out insistently. This aroused the suspicion of the inspectors about his sobriety. One conversed with him. and formed the opinion that the accused was intoxicated. Two doctors later certified him as unfit to drive.

The Magistrate' cancelled Nottingham’s licence for 12 months and fined him £ls. DRIVER SENT TO GAOL DEPRIVED OF LICENCE FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS WELLINGTON, January 24. On a charge of intoxication while in | charge of a motor-car in the city on I

Saturday afternoon, Walter Francis Swiney, aged 35, a labourer, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., to-day. • . Swiney was prohibited from obtaining a driver’s licence for 18 months. DUNEDIN MOTORIST FINED AFTER WARNING « . DUNEDIN, January 24. “You have had a warning. ' These offences are too frequent lb overlook,”

said Mr H. W. Bundle. S.M.. to Magistrate’s Court this sentencing Noel John Hagert., 35, a mechanic, to one monthsiag*y oument and cancelling his three years for being intoxicated in charge of a car. -ft-ittf Hagerty was convicted offence in 1931, and was Court in November for ft--1 driving, and was then orderea 0 ( tend driving classes, but fat-v® 1 so. _