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WHISKY AND PETROL. -MOTORIST FINED £2O. Wellington, Jan. 26. As intoxication was a matter of degree, drivers Of motor-ears ran a risk immediately they took liquor, aud friends who tempted them to do so should be prepared to share the responsibility, said a well-known medical practitioner when giving evidence in the Police Court yesterday. The case was one in which 1. Turnbull was charged with being intoxicated whilst in charge of a motor-car. Defendant was convicted and lined £2O by Mr W. H. Woodward. S.AI. The magistrate said that while accused was in such a state of intoxication as not to be fit to drive, he was not in an advanced state and possibly it was not n had breach of the law . “I think the accused’s demeanour in Court shows he is not likely to come up before the Court again for an offence of this kind,*’ the magistrate said. “The public will not need any further protection in this case, and for that reason J don’t think it is necessary to make an order regarding his license.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 36, 26 January 1932, Page 4
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181WON’T MIX Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 36, 26 January 1932, Page 4
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