A FINE IMPOSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 15

A FINE IMPOSED

INTOXICATION CHARGE

A fine Of £20 and costs, in default a month's imprisonment, with hard labour, was imposed on William Joseph O'Brien, a clerk, aged 25, by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today for being intoxicated in charge of a car. His licence was' endorsed and suspended until May 31, 1937, and the local authorities were ordered to be notified. He agreed to take out a prohibition order against himself for the period of a year.

Sub-Inspector C. E. Roach said that at 4.5 a.m. on Sunday a constable saw a motor-car parked about eight feet from the kerb, opposite the National Hotel. The accused was in the car asleep, and when awakened was not intelligible. He was driven to the Central Station, where a doctor certified that he was unfit to be in charge of a motor vehicle.

Mr. R. Hardie Boys said that his client had worked in the open all Saturday, and then had attended a dance at Woburn, where he had nad some liquor. He then drove two friends home to Wadestown and the National Hotel respectively. Outside the latter place he felt the effects of fatigue and drink, and decided it would not be safe to drive to Island Bay,.where he lived. He had been driving for ten years without a' conviction.