EXPENSIVE KISS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30063, 22 February 1963, Page 12

EXPENSIVE KISS

Man Fined £4O

(N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 21. An attempt to kiss a girl friend while she was a passenger in a car which he was driving proved expensive for Norman William Jamieson Matthews, who was fined £4O when he appeared before Mr J. K. Patterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill today. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving while under the influence of drink or drugs.

Matthews, a 55-year-old signwriter, admitted that he was trying to kiss his girl friend and said he could have gone over the white line for about 150 feet. Traffic Officer I. C. Dobbin told the Court that he followed Matthews’s car for about a mile, during which time the car veered over to the gravel on the right-hand side of the road and back onto the gravel at the lefthand side. “If the defendant was trying to kiss his passenger, couldn’t you expect the car to veer or depart from its normal course?” asked Mr T. L. Savage, counsel for Matthews. Traffic Officer Dobbin: That would depend on how much co-operation he was getting. Mr Savage: Tell us what you saw—don’t be coy.—l just saw him reach for his passenger and the car veering on the road.