LICENSE SUSPENDED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 85, 10 April 1926, Page 13

LICENSE SUSPENDED

FINED FIFTEEN POUNDS AND COSTS.

(Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Bth April. "Yesterday and also the day before, fines of £10 were impooed on intoxicated motorists, but-1 think that the fines are not effective," observed Mr. F. K. Hunt', 8.M., ■in the Police Court this morning, when Andrew Francis Donoghue (30) eamß before him charged with being in a ue of intoxication while in chaige of a motorcar last night. The accused pleade-1 guilty. . / .'.■■* . Senior-Sergeant Edwards said that Donoghue, at about 9 p.m., vhile driving his, car had to-swerve hi oaler to miss colliding with a taxi. Later on he nearly collide", with a street convenience, and drove on to the kerbing

•f a footpath. Constable M'Kenzie had to call on the accused tl.reo times before he' stopped the car. An empty whisky bottle was afterwards'found in the car. ' . ..-''-.

Mr. H. Moody, who ajner red for the accused, said that while th,e docror certified that Donogbue.was nbc drunk, there was no doubt that lie had had sown liquor. However, 'it w? not alloged that Donoghue had fravtlUd at anything but a alow.'speed....That, was a pleasing feature. . The'accused had to make a sharp turn, and'probably his judgment was not quite correct. Cqun-s-rl said that the case was fo as bad as other cases which had cpmt before the Magistrate, and he suggested that a fine should be inflicted rather than send Donoghue to gaol. ...,

In addition to inflicting. a: penalty of £15 and costs, Mr. Hrnt suspended Donoghue's driver's license for six months. .