“MENACE TO THE PUBLIC"
INTOXICATED LORRY DRIVER FINE OF £2O IMPOSED (By Telegraph-Pres# Association! HASTINGS. 20th March. “He was a menace to the public; he should not have been in charge of a petrol lorry,” said Mr J. K. Miller, S.M., in the Magistrates' Court, Hastings. after hearing a case in which Thomas Henry Abrams, lorry-driver, Wellington, was charged with being intoxicatid when in charge of a petrol lorry on the Napier-Palmerston North main road on 22nd March.
Abrams, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted and fined £2O, and his driver’s license cancelled for one year.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 6
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96“MENACE TO THE PUBLIC" Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 6
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