DRUNKEN MOTORIST
“SORT OF PRIVATE BAR IN OWN GARAGE.”
DIDN’T WANT TO SEE WIFE’S VISITORS!
FINED £25 AND LICENSE CANCELLED FOR SIX MONTHS,
AUCKLAND, Oct. 13
A statement that defendant became intoxicated in liis own motor garage, where he had provided “a sort of private bar,” was made by counsel in the Police Court, when a line of £25 was imposed on William Thomas Watson, a plumber, for being drunk when in charge of a motor car.
The Magistrate (Mr Hunt) also ordered the cancellation of defendant’s license for six months.
Evidence was given that defendant just missed colliding with a boy with a trolley. Constable Powell said he went to defendant’s home and found him asleep in the front seat of the cor in his garage. JtL. wax drunk, his condition being such that witness would have arrested him had lie been in a public place.
■For the defence it was stated defendant admitted getting drunk in his own garage. He had a space partitioned off as a sort of private bar. liis wife had visitors, whom he did not want to see, and having an hour to spend ho had a few drinks in the garage. .His wife had recently presented him with twins.
The Magistrate: Were those the visitors he did not want to see.— P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10489, 14 October 1926, Page 5
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