DRUNK IN CHARGE
Motorist Sent to Gaol for Two Months HIS THIRD OFFENCE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Jan. 20. In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. E. 0. Lewy, S.M., John Charles Padget, aged 44, a farrier, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car. Accused had been seen at two o’clock in the morning driving in an erratic manner. He had been arrested in a very drunken state. It was bis third offence. Counsel said that the car was the cause of all the trouble. His principal business was shoeing horses. He did the shoeing of practically all the racehorses in Southland. “This has gone beyond all toleration.” said his Worship, in convicting accused and sentencing him to imprisonment for two months. His license was cancelled, and he was debarred from obtaining another one for three years.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 7
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150DRUNK IN CHARGE Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 7
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