A FINE OF £75
INTOXICATED MOTORIST
FOUR YEARS' SUSPENSION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Thomas Edridge, a farmer, was fined £75 when he appeared in the Magistrate's Court at Kaiapoi and admitted he had been intoxicated in charge of. a car. Default in payment of the fine was fixed at three months' imprisonment. The defendant's driver's licence was cancelled, and he was prohibited from obtaining another for four years.
Constable J. Holmes said that Edridge, who was a well-known North Canterbury farmer, had admitted that he had consumed six beers in Christchurch. He left Christchurchfor his home, travelling by way of Rangiora. The police signalled to him to stop when he passed through Kaiapoi with only one light burning, but he did not do so. Edridge was driving somewhat erratically, he said. Traffic Inspector Tait overtook and stopped Edridge and brought him to the. police station, where a doctor certified that he Was hot in a fit state to drive a car.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 13
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