INTOXICATED MOTORIST
TEN DAYS' IMPRISONMENT I United Press Association 1 PALMERSTON NORTH, This Day Lewis Eric Colville, aged 23, was sen- I tenced to ten days' imprisonment by Mr La wry, S.M., for being intoxicated in charge of a car and his license was cancelled till May, 1040. Inspector Cummings said that accused s car mounted a footpath at 1 40 p.m. and travelled a dista..ce of forty feet, going through a strong fence across a garden, into a wash-house! demolishing one side of this and knocking the copper from the brickwork The impact occurred four feet from a sleeping man. who received a Croat fright. s The Magistrate commented that he did not usually impose gaol for a first offence, but this case was different. The car’s course showed Ihe extent of accused’s intoxication. RUGBY IN BRITAIN ('PA Ht Kle.-l nr I pl»»m m,h —Copyright' (Received 13lh December, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, 12th December. Rugby Union football: Trinity College (Dublin) v. Oxford University, 3-13.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 13 December 1938, Page 8
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