INTOXICATED MOTORIST
•WEIGHT-LIFTING EXCUSE.
[per press association.]
PALMERSTON N., February 20
An unusual excuse in answer to a charge or being intoxicated while in charge of a< car was tendered by counsel during the hearing of a case at Pahiatua. The defendant was William Udy, for whom Mr S. K. Siddells appeared. Counsel said that while Udy would admit having had six beers during the afternoon, his condition of weakness had been brought about by an attempt to perform the feat of lifting one-handed a twelve-stone man from a chair on to a bar counter. The strain of such extreme exertion caused Udy to be ill, and in order to recover he went and sat in his car, where he had' been for about half-an-hour before being arrested. Udy had already arranged for his son to drive him home. He had not driven, nor had he intended to drive.
Mr H. P. Lawry, S,M., agreed that the offence was not as bad as some, but the Bench had a duty to perform to the public. In view of the unusual circumstances, the least penalty he could inflict was to tine Udy £lO and cancel his license for twelve months.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1939, Page 7
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