INTOXICATED DRIVERS.
LORRY STRIKES SAFETY ZONE.
FINE OF £lO IMPOSED.
A fine of £lO was imposed on David Searle, aged 49, who was charged in the Police Court yesterday with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-lorry. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that when driving his motor-lorry along Karangahape Road at about 6.30 o'clock on Saturday evening Searle collided with a safety zone. He was found by the police to be under tho influence of liquor. There was nothing known against him previously. * Mr. Holmden, who appeared for accused, said Searle had been employed as it carrier for 13 years, and ho was earning £4 16s a week. He had been driving a motor-lorry for the past three years, prior to which he had driven hprse-trucks. He was married and had two children, ono aged six and the other aged seven months. Searle was prepared to take out a prohibition order, and his employer was willing to keep him if his licence was not canculled.
Tho magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, said accused's licence would bo endorsed, but ho would not cancol it. Ho would issue a prohibition order.
OAR DRIVER PINED.
ARREST ON SUNDAY EVENING.
Charged with being intoxicated while in ' charge of a motor-car at Manurewa on Sunday evening, Harold Warren Benton appeared before Messrs. G. W. Venablrs and W. McNeely, J.P.'s, in tho Otfihuhu- Police Court yesterday. He was fined '£s, in default seven days' imprisonment.
The traffic inspector, E. H. Barrett, said that at 6.30 on Sunday evening ho met accused driving his car an erratic course, even to mounting the footpath and zig-zaggmg between telegraph poles. When arrested and taken to the Papatoetoo police station accused did not ask to.'see a doctor. Constable Maloney said Benton was certainly drunk, and he was not in a fit state to drive a "car. "*
Benton, who pleaded not guilty, denied having had any liquor on Sunday, but said he had had a considerable amount at Ngaruawahia on the previous day at a wedding he had attended there*; Ho suggested his condition was the result of the amount of liquor he had consumed on Saturday,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 17 September 1929, Page 12
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355INTOXICATED DRIVERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 17 September 1929, Page 12
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