“FOOLISH TRICK.”
SEQUEL IN COURT,
Per Press Association,
CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 30. Arthur Stanley Buchanan drove his oar to the police station to lay a complaint against an hotelkeeper; it was an ill-advised trip, for this morning he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty to being intoxicated while in charge of a car in Oxford Terrace. Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., fined Buchanan £lO and costs and cancelled and endorsed his license, and declared him to be unfit to hold a license for twelve months. “This young inan got himself into this mix-up as the result of an excess of alcohol,” said Sub-Inspector McLean. “He drove to the police station to lay a complaint against an hotelkeeper, and his condition was detected then. I think a stubborn temper was responsible.” “It was a sort of foolish trick, counsel observed. Buchanan had. been at a wedding breakfast, but he did not consider he was intoxicated, and it was to uphold this contention that he drove to the police station.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 7
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