INTOXICATION CHARGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 15

INTOXICATION CHARGES

THREE MEN FINED Three charges of drunkenness were heard in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. A labourer, Benjamin John Ede, aged 46, was charged with being found drunk in Mary Street, Henderson, and with using indecent language on the AucklandWhangarei train. Ho pleaded guilty to the first charge, but said ho did not remember committing the second offence. A porter on the train said that when he was taking the tickets accused complained that witness had snatched his ticket from him. Witness denied this and accused began to use bad language in a low voice. When witness walked away, accused began to call out the language in a voice that was audible all over the carriage. Sub-Inspector Edwards said accused had been put off the train at Henderson station and later arrested in Mai 3 Accused was convicted and dischaiged on the first count, a lino of £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, being imposed 011 the second. Charged with being found drunk in Nelson Street and with using obscene language, Andrew McKeuzie McGregor, aged 35, seaman, was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, and ordered to be put on board his ship, the Port Sydney, before its departure. On a charge of being drunk m Fanehawe Street, Leslie Roy Keoghan, aged 34, labourer, was' fined £l, in dofault three days' imprisonment.