INTOXICATED DRIVER
At 1.15 a.m. on Sunday a car collided with a rubbish receptacle in Taranaki Street, close to the Police Station. The police heard the crash and investigated They found the driver, Russell George Fisher, moulder, 36, in an intoxicated condition and took him to the station where a doctor was called. Senior-Sergeant G. Paine, in stating those facts in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Fisher appeared and pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxication while in charge of a car, added that the accused had been before the Court for a similar offence in 1939 Mr. J L. Stout, S.M., fined him £40 and costs and ordered that he be disqualified from obtaining a drivin" licence for three years and until an application was made after that time to the Court for the removal of the suspension.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1944, Page 7
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139INTOXICATED DRIVER Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1944, Page 7
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