JAIL FOR MOTORIST
Intoxication in Charge of Car Having been fined £lO and his licence cancelled for three months for a similar offence last July, Alfred Samuel Erickson, a painter, aged 57, was sentenced in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday to 21 days’ hard labour and his licence was cancelled for two years from May 31 next for intoxication in charge of a motor-car in Broadway, Miramar. Sub-Inspector J. Dempsey said that at 7.5 p.m. on Thursday Erickson drove his car into the barck of another car parked with its lights on close to the. kerb. The impact was not very severe, but the bumpers became locked. Erickson was arrested and Dr. Zohrab, who examined him at S. p.m., gave a certificate that he was not in a fit state to drive a 1 car. Erickson admitted having had about a dozen drinks. It was a second offence. CHRISTCHURCH CASE By Telegraph — Press Association Christchurch, July 16. James Bernard Beban was fined £l5 and had his licence cancelled for 12 months by Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., on a charge of Ijeing intoxicated in charge of o’ ear.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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188JAIL FOR MOTORIST Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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