INTOXICATED DRIVER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20598, 24 June 1930, Page 12

INTOXICATED DRIVER.

FINE IMPOSED ON MOTORIST. CANCELLATION OF LICENCE. ARREST FOLLOWS COMPLAINT. "This will never occur again; I can promise Your Worship that," said Mr. Sullivan in the Police Court yesterday when ho asked that the driving licence of a hairdresser, Walter Charles lteid, aged <l4, should not be cancelled. Reid was convicted on a charge of being intoxicated in chargo of a motor-car in Parnell Road on Saturday afternoon. Sub-Inspector Shanahan said a complaint was received by the police at 6.21> p.m. and a sergeant and two constables went to search for the driver of the car about which tho complaint was made. He was located at a service station and when the sergeant approached ho was attempting to straighten a mudguard which he admitted he had bent in a collision with another car. Accused also admitted that he was not in c. tit stato to drivo and had taken two drinks. In the car were found two bottles of stout and six bottles of beer.

Mr. Sullivan said accused bad taken two glasses of beer after leaving Carlaw I'ark and had then driven with a friend through Parnell Road. At tho corner of Bird wood Crescent lie had come into collision with a motor-car which counsel said had not been properly parked at the kerb. Accused had then driven to tho petrol station, where he was trying to fix his mudguard, which was rattling.

Counsel said that as soon as accused reached tho police station be had asked for a doctor. Dr. C. IT. Tcwsley exanrncd accused at 7.10 p.m. and said be showed signs of having consumed a considerable quantity of liquor. His judgment. would not be sufficiently reliable to drive a car. Accused was a hard-working man and was married, with three children. Ho had never had an accident of any description previously, although he had been driving for 16 years. Counsel asked that accused's licence should not be cancelled.

"It is not as bad a caso .'is the one 1 had before mo last week," said the magistrate, Mr. F. Iv. Hunt, who imposed a fine of £ls and cancelled accused's licence for six months. ,