FINED £10
INTOXICATED IN CHARGE
A plea of guilty to a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor-cycle was entered by Thomas Bunce, a labourer, aged 62, when he appeared before Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M:, in the Lower Hutt Court today.
Sergeant -J. W. McHolm said that the defendant was arrested at 2.15 p.m. last Sunday. He had been riding his motor-cycle, with sidecar attached, through the Taita Gorge, and when he was near the service station he fell off the machine. A traffic inspector who was passing took him to the police station, where a doctor said he was intoxicated.
Mr. A. J. Mazengarb stated that Bunce and a friend took some liquor to friends in Stokes Valley, but when they found these people were not at home they drank some of it themselves. On the way home the tyre of the sidecar blew out and when Bunce kept going on the rim of the wheel he fell off the machine, suffering a fractured rib and'concussion. About two years ago he suffered concussion, and when he fell this might have had the same effect on him as the drink. Bunce was fined £10, his driver's licence was suspended, and he was disqualified from•' getting one for twelve i^onths,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 11
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