Intoxicated Doctor Keeps His Licence
AUCKLAND, Sat. (Sp.)— Charged with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor car, David Brockway Rogers, medical practitioner, was fined £4O by Mr J. Morllng, S.M., yesterday. Rogers was fined a further £2 for resisting a constable. He pleaded guilty to both charges. Sub-Inspector M. E. Lines said that Constable Friend observed that defendant was intoxicated while in charge of his car on the Devonport vehicular wharf. When the constable asked him to leave the car, Rogers became heated and violently resisted, and had to be forcibly restrained. Dr P. J. E. Lewis gave evidence that Rogers was an almost total abstainer and that he had been suffering from ill-health.' In this state it would take very little liquor to affect him. Remarking that the public would probably suffer if deprivced of defendant’s services, the magistrate said he would not cancel the licence. He would, instead, impose a substantial fine.
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Northern Advocate, 16 July 1949, Page 5
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