INTOXICATED DRIVER.
FARMER FINED £25.
DRIVING LICENCE LOST.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MARTON, Thursday. A farmer, Lawrence Whale, of Marton, who had been previously convicted and fined for being drunk while in charge of a car, was before the Magistrate's Court yostcrday on a similar charge. Constable Thompson said defendant was arrested the previous evening while about to set out for home. He was incoherent in speech, and smelt strongly of drink. The magistrate imposed a fine of_£2s, and disqualified accused from obtaining a driver's licence for a period of six months. "You have agreed to take out a prohibition order," he said, "and it will ho in your interests lo keep yourself prohibited for some years." LICENCE NOT SUSPENDED. ELDERLY OFFENDER FINED. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] DARGAVILLE, Thursday. An elderly man, Ned Warmington, was fined £2O and costs by Mr. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day for being intoxicated while in charge of a car. On the representations made by defendant's counsel, who pleaded that defendant would be deprived of his only means of conveyance to his work, (ho magistrate agreed not to suspend his licence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20257, 17 May 1929, Page 14
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187INTOXICATED DRIVER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20257, 17 May 1929, Page 14
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