MOTORIST FINED.
MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. James Douglas Nelson, a traveller, of Dunedin, was fined £2O by Mr Stilwell, S.M., for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor car. Counsel said his state of intoxication was probably due, not to the amount of liquor taken, but to his physical condition, as lie was overtired after a very heavy week. The Magistrate said lie would not cancel the license, because the car was necessary, to defendant’s livelihood, but he wanted to impress on him that, whatever his previous good record, at the time he was driving he was just as big a menace as any other person who had liquor and was in charge of a car.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 18 September 1933, Page 2
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