INTOXICATED DRIVERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 14

INTOXICATED DRIVERS.

CASES AT OTAHUHU. FINE OF £4O IMPOSED. The opinion that defendant was either much intoxicated or much experienced in tho circumstances was expressed by Mr. F. H. Levion, S.M., in convicting Stanley Francis Roulston Holmes, a tourist from England, in tho Otahuhu Police Court yesterday, on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a car on the Great South Road on June 17. Accused was fined £4O and his driver's licence was cancelled for 12 months. Ho was allowed 48 hours in which to pay the fine. Ho did not appear in answer to tho charge, his counsel, Air. M. J. Sullivan, explaining that he was too upset. A plea of guilty was entered. Sergeant Howell said that on the evening of Juno 16, defendant took three friends, two of whom were women, from Auckland in a hired car into the countrv. About 1 a.m., the car capsized in rounding a bend on the Great South Road at Wiri. None of tho occupants was injured. Also on a charge of being intoxicated when in charge of a car, William Henry Kendall was fined £ls and had his licence cancelled for 12 months 110 was given six weeks in which to' pay the fine.

Constable Archibald stated that between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, he found several men struggling in the yard of a hotel at Otahuhu. Defendant was there. lie was intoxicated, and kept on trying to start his car. Dr Carrie, who examined defendant at (he Otahuhu Police Station a little later, gave evidence that ho was intoxicated MUSICIAN FINED .€2O. MEETING WITH A mi END. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN* COP/RESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Monday. For being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car, Sydney Harvey Bernard, a musician, aged 35, was fined £2O by .Mr. W. If. Woodward, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate's Court to-day. Sub-Inspector Lopdell said that from the position of accused's car, which was parked, and the way ho was sitting at the wheel, it was evident ho /was not in a fit state fo drive. Mr. W. Brown, for accused, said that like tnosl musicians, his pi,cut was rather sentimental and inclined to be upset. "He met a friend whom lie had not seen for a long time," said counsel, "but I suppose it is the old story. They went into a hotel for a drink, and as -accused was not used to drinking he soon found himself overcome by the whisky. J sug gest that, being of musical temperament, the whisky made him excited." The magistrate said accused seemed a decent young man and he would not cancel his licence, but. for the safely of (lie public he would have to inflict a heavy line. COLLISION WITH CYCLE. COURT IMPOSES KINK. [ Dl' T E EEC r: A r 11. —rn ESS A SSOCI AT I ON. ] NELSON, Monday. A fine of £ls was imposed on Alfred George Gross for being found in a state of intoxication while ■ in charge of a motor vehicle. Accused was arrested after a collision with a motor-cycle on .Bishopdale Hill