DRUNK IN CHARGE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 31 July 1930, Page 4

DRUNK IN CHARGE

£2o’ 'FINE {IMPOSED LICENSE ALSO CANCELLED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 30. _ The plea that if defendant loist his license h'e would !be deprived of his livelihood was advanced Iby counsel on the Magistral tie’s Court to-day when appearing for Fred JBiairnhouse, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated while in Charge of a motor cajr yesterday. Sub-Inspector Lopdell said- that a constable’s attention was drawn /to an engine ra|ci'ng dn Woodward Street and he had seen, that the driver of thle car was l having difficulty. After witnessing several! l \imshe'eeissful attempts the constable went over and found Earn - house intoxi'c.aibed. Harnhouse was taken tlo the police station where about 50 minutes afterwards hie was examined by a doctor who certified that he was not in a fit. state to drive a car.

Ml* E. ‘Page, iSIM., timed Barnbouse £2O. “I realise,” said Mir Page, dealing witlh the question of the license, ‘ ‘that, when a man earns his living in a. motor car it is a isevere penalty to lose his lieelnlso for a time, but the offence itself is a serious and dangerous one and: I propose to ’cancel his license for three months.”