A SECOND OFFENCE
FARMER DRUNK IN CHARGE
(By Telegraph — Press Association.i
WAIROA, November 16.
"You should consider yourself very lucky, for if a Magistrate' had been here you would probably have gone to gaol," said. Mr., J. R. Gillespie. J.P., at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court today, when Daniel Robert Mullins, farmer, aged 30, was fined £20 for being intoxicated in charge of a motortruck and had his licence cancelled for three years. The- accused ' pleaded guilty. , :. ' ' \
Sergeant Clark said that Mullins was a farmer and well known. He was one of those, who might be described as. a pest,, and it was a.wellknown fact that when, there was beer about he was- not very far from it. Sergeant Clark added that this was the accused's second offence. He was convicted of. being intoxicated in charge of a vehicle on February .14 last and his licence was cancelled for six months. "He obtained a new licence on August 14," said Sergeant, Clark, "and here' he is again. He is 'a danger on the road." • ' ; \ ■ ■.•:.■'.■ -.' : ■"'' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 5
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175A SECOND OFFENCE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 5
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