NAVAL RATING FINED
SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT INTOXICATED IN CAR (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Colin Spencer Young, a naval rating who was arrested following a collision at Heretaunga yesterday, was charged at the Upper Hutt Court to-day with being intoxicated when in charge of a car and with having no drivers’ license.
On the first charge he was fined £25 or -one month in gaol, and prohibited from obtaining a license till 1941. On the other- charge he was fined 10s and costs.
\ The captain of the ship on which the accused was employed put in a plea that the accused should not be imprisoned as his services were indispensable. Mr. A. Goulding, S.M., said that if the plea had not been made he would have sent Young to gaol. Eight persons were injured in the collision, not seven, an addition to tlie list being Richard Card, 24, who was also in Young’s car, his injuries being slight.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20140, 9 January 1940, Page 6
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