INTOXICATED MOTORIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19753, 28 September 1927, Page 13

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

PENALTY OF FIFTY POUNDS* PARTY DRIVEN FROM EDENDALE NO LICENCE FOR TWO YEARS. On a charge of being found in control of a motor-car while intoxicated in • Princes Street on Monday evening, Thomas Whitmeal Churches, aged 25, farm labourer, was fined £SO in the Police Court yesterday. His driver's licence was cancelled and he was prohibited from obtaining another for two years. Sergeant Cnlvcell said a constable found accused in Princes Street just after hd had driven in from Edendala with a party of friends. The noise attracted the constable's attention to the party. Tha rest of the party went away when he «p----proached. Accused was in a state of intoxication: he was bordering on drunkenness. He said he had dt'iven the car from Edendaie and that he would drive it back. _ Replying to Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., accused said the car was his. " I drive my father into town twice a day," he added. The Magistrate: No, you will not after this. You will be fined £SO and your licence will he cHncsilcwi for two year*. PROSECUTION AT WELLINGTON, YOUNG MAN FINED HEAVILY. [ST TELEGRAPH - —OWN CORRESPONDENT-] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. On a charge of being intoxicated whilo in charge of a motor-car, Joseph Ed*ud Turnbuil, aged 23, was fined £25 in th« Magistrate's Conrt to-day. Accused'# driving licence was suspended for thre« months.