NELSON NEWS
SEAMAN AND A CAR
(From Our Own Correspondent.) NELSON, 16th May.
Mr. W. J. Poison, Dominion president oi the Farmers' Union, gave an address to a fairly well-attended meeting -at Brightwater last "evening. To-day he went on to Takaka and" Collingwood, where addresses will be made. He returns to Wellington on Saturday evening. ' .... At the Magistrate ?s Court before Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., Norman Strawbridge and Walter Grooby were each fined £1, costs 10s, for. being found on the premises of the Star and Garter Hotel, Eichmond, in illegal , hours. George Edward Marr (Mr.. H. Cheek) licensee of the-hotel, pleaded guilty to selling, liquor after hours (Sunday morning). A fine of £3, costs 10s, was'imposed. , ■/'■;■ Geminell Jack Murphy, a . seaman was fined, £3 for driving a motor vehicle without holding a driver's licence. Defendant had borrowed a ear and jt crossed the footpath /in Bridge street, and ran into a shop window.' He attributed the accident -to lack of knowledge of the gears. "The, public must be protected from the menace of incompetent drivers," was the comment of the Magistrate in imposing the fine. . / . :
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 10
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187NELSON NEWS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 10
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