MENACE TO ROAD USERS

Evening Star, Issue 22685, 26 June 1937, Page 21

MENACE TO ROAD USERS

DRUHKEH DRIVERS DEALT WITH [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 24. “ When a man in a motor car is more or less intoxicated he is a menace to people using the road,” said Mr Orr Walker, S.M., dealing with three offenders in the Police Court to-day, Charles William Henry Mackie, a labourer, aged 26, pleaded not guilty to a charge of intoxication in a car, and was fined £25. Philip Morton Mansill, a clerk, aged 28. pleaded guilty to a similar charge, and was fined £25. William Exler, a pottery manufacturer, admitted a similar charge. The police said he had been previously convicted of dangerous and negligent driving, and he was fined £35. ' In each case the magistrate cancelled his license and prohibited him from driving for two years. WELLINGTON, June 25. A fine of £lO and costs and the cancellation of his license for 12 months were imposed on Thomas Greenwood Schofield, aged 45, a motor mechanic, for being drank in charge of a car Had it not been that questions of health entered into the matter the magistrate intimated that more stringent punishment would have been imposed.