NAPIER MOTORIST SENT TO PRISON
Drunk-in-charge Conviction Dominion Special Service. Napier, March 23. Arrested in Bridge Street, Port Ahuriri, yesterday, Harold Knife, Napier, earner, appeared this morning in the Magistrate’s Court at Napier before Mr. J. Miller, S.M., on a charge of feeing intoxicated while in charge of a car. Ralfe was convicted and sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment and hie driver’s licence was cancelled for one year. In evidence, Sergeant Boniseh said that an unsuccessful attempt had been made by Constable Williamson to stop a. Speeding car in Port Ahuriri, and soon afterward complaints came in regarding a _n erratically-driven car on Eskdale Road. Later Sergeant Boniseh himself found the car in Bridge Street With defendant in the driving seat. He was so drunk that he could not even talk coherently. “It is necessary to take a firm stand,” said the magistrate. “This has become a very serious class of offence in my district, and until motorists realise that they can’t do this a firm stand will be maintained. I have to be consistent, and, while I do not impose imprisonment when there are extenuating circumstances, I can find none here.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19370324.2.17
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 152, 24 March 1937, Page 5
Word Count
192NAPIER MOTORIST SENT TO PRISON Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 152, 24 March 1937, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in