INTOXICATED MOTORIST
MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED "A VERY BAD CASE [United Press Association] AUCKLAND, This Day. Following the warning which he gave in the Police Court yesterday that except in very special circumstances intoxicated motorists would be sent to gaol. Mr Orr-Walker to-day sentenced Hugh John Foster Roberts, aged 34 years, a saddler of Pokeno, to one month’s imprisonment and cancelled his license for two years. Roberts had pleaded guilty to being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motorcar on the Great South Road at Otahuhu. The police said that Roberts was arrested on a charge of ordinary drunkenness and later they found that he was in charge of a motor-car. The car lights were on and everything was in order except that the car was parked twelve feet from the kerb. He was returning from Auckland to Pokeno. Counsel asked for the infliction of a fine instead of imprisonment. This is a very bad case.” said the Magistrate. "This man was utterly 1 drank. He knew he was going home in tiie dark. I cannot imagine anything < more dangerous than to drive over the' Great South Road in the state ot drun- 1 kenness this man was in."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 4 May 1938, Page 7
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