LORD AND HIS CAR
I MISHT AS WELL GO TO GAOL " “If I have not my driving license 1 might as well go to gaol.” said Lord Avebury recently at Kingston-on-Thames Police Court, where he was lined £5 fdr exceeding the speed limit. His license was suspended for 12 months (says the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’). He had left the court after handing in a cheque in payment of the fine, but a few minutes later he returned, and a warrant officer reported that Lord Avebury said he intended to stop the cheque. Lord Avebury then made the remark quoted. “ We shall not send you to prison,” said the chairman, Sir Stanley Machin, “ but we will give you time to think the matter over. If you don’t pqy the fine, we shall have an unpleasant duty to perform.” Lord Avebury; I sincerely hope you find it unpleasant. He left the cheque in court.
It was alleged during the hearing that Lord Avebury’s car, drawing a trailer, went at 41 miles an hour on the Kingston by-pass. The police stated that he had five convictions for exceeding the limit since last March. “ You really cannot go on like this,” said Sir Stanley Machin. Lord Avebury: My license is essential to me in my business, and 1 cannot afford to employ a chauffeur. Ho asked if he could appeal, and the clerk told him that he had better consult a solicitor.
Later Lord Avebury said; “ 1 am considering an appeal. I saw my solicitor to-day, but 1 do not know at the moment -whether I shall appeal or not.”
Lord Avebury, who is 20. succeeded to the barony at the age of 13, when he was at Eton. He is well known as a racing driver.
The suppliers of 9,900 tins of sardines that were condemned as unfit for human food in London on February 16 have now been fined £2.000 by the Portuguese Fish Board, and have been prohibited from trading in the same branch for two years.
The British Museum lias accepted from the Gaumcmt-British Corporation a copy of the short pictorial memoir of King George V., which was recently shown in cinemas. Copies of the film arc to be presented to various cities, including Cardiff, Glasgow. Liverpool, Leeds, and York,
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Evening Star, Issue 22326, 30 April 1936, Page 9
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379LORD AND HIS CAR Evening Star, Issue 22326, 30 April 1936, Page 9
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