MOTOR DRIVER FINED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 11

MOTOR DRIVER FINED

Charge of Drunkenness A fine of £l5 and the suspension of his driving license for 12 months were the penalties imposed by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday on Herbert Henry Waters, aged 25 years, labourer, on a charge of being, in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car in Riddiford Street. Waters pleaded “guilty under protest.” On a charge of driving without a license he was fined 10/-. He was given one month in which to pay. Senior-Sergeant Dempsey, who prosecuted, said defendant, who was in a drunken state, and another man, who was slightly more sober,, had been quarrelling in Riddiford Street at about 7.20 p.m. on Monday. The men had been advised to go home by a constable. The constable had followed them for 'some distance, and, a few minutes later he had seen the defendant driving a car which had passed him. At 7.35 p.m. the defendant had been found by the constable quarrelling in a house in Bintoul Street, the car being outside. There was liquor in the car, and the defendant bad not renewed his driver’s license. At the police station he had been examined by a doctor, who had issued a certificate.