MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 27. Charged with being drunk while in charge of a car, a medical practitioner, SelwYn Langstaffe Haslett, was fined £25 in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday and his driving license was endorsed; Senior-Sergeant Dempsey described how on Friday night, Constable Wilson found defendant in a stationary car. He was lying asleep across the wheel. The constable woke him up and took him to the Taranaki Street station, where two medical men saw him and pronuonced him to be intoxicated. Mr A J. Mazengarb sa:d defendant had recently disposed of his practice in the north and had come to Wellington. The worry and work involved in taking over a new practice had proved very exhausting and he had to take a dunk to buck himself up. He had not been driving the car, but was merely asleep in it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 10
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145MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 10
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