INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 11

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

14 DAYS’ IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR i LICENSE ALSO CANCELLED “PUBLIC MUST BE PROTECTED” (By Telegraph—Press Association i CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. • “The public must be protected, and because accused chose to .get into this state he must suffer the consequences,” said Mr Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning in sentencing Alexander Gunn, salesman, aged 39, to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour when he appeared on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle. An order was also made cancelling Gunn’s license until 31st May, 1937.

Sub-Inspector Maclean said that Gunn was arrested at 10.45 o’clock last night after an accident in which a man and his wife, both on bicycles, had been knocked over by the car driven by Gunn. Fortunately no injury was done to either of the cyclists. Mr D. W. Russell, for accused, said that Gunn was a married man with two small children. Yesterday he had been conducting an auction sale which had been so satisfactory that at the conclusion Gunn had been invited to take some refreshment. Gunn, said Mr Russell, went to the war while under age and this had had an effect on his nervous system. “A motor car is a dangerous machine in the hands of a man not competent to drive, and a man under the influence of liquor has his ability interfered with,” said the Magistrate.