Drunken Motorists
(Per Press Association. — Copyright) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. “You must understand it is a criminal thing to take drink when you are driving a car. I think that will become the law of the country soon,” said Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., when convicting Henry Grylls, of Urenui, in the Police Court yesterday. Grylls was fined £25 for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car, and was. prohibited from obtaining a license for two years. It was Grylls’s second offence, but the magistrate, who fixed the same penalty as on the first occasion, said he must be guided by the circumstances. For a second similar offence, Lionel Bishop, of Toko, was fined £lO and prohibited from ever holding another license.
A carpenter, Edward John Mateara, was fined £ls by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday", for being intoxicated in charge of a motor-cycle. On a similar charge at Hamilton, a Maori, Tonga Nui Pumipi, ’ was fined a similar amount.
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Northern Advocate, 30 August 1938, Page 4
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