DRIVER FINED £5O

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22515, 4 September 1936, Page 12

DRIVER FINED £SO

INTOXICATED IN CAR NO LICENCE FOR TWO YEARS TELEGRAPH POLE BROKEN [from oub own cobbkspokoc-i] PUKEKOHE, Thursday . For being intoxicated while driving his car on the Great South Road last night, John Reynolds Campbell, farm manager, of East Tamaki, was fined £SO and costs, £l, by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Pukckohe Police Court today. His driving licence was cancelled for two years.

Defendant was stopped and arrested by Constable H. J. Olsen, of Mercer, on the hill above Pokeno. In evidence, the constable said that as the result of a complaint received about 8.20 p.m. he went in his car to a point on the Great South Road, about half-a-mile tonth of Pokeno. He saw a telegraph polo there which had been broken by a car.

Oar Zigzagging However, the car was not there, but marks showed it had continued north. He went on and came up with a car being driven by defendant on the grade between Pokeno and Bombay. It was zigzagging its course He waited an opportunity to pass it and then went ahead and stopped it. Defendant stepped out of it, continued the constable. He seemed stupid. Witness brought him into Pukekolie and had him examined by a doctor. He then had him locked up, as he was satisfied he was intoxicated.

Campbell had had two men with him in the car and they, too, were under the influence of liquor. The car had been left on the roadside, but had been removed by the time he returned from Pukekohe. Not a Drinker

On behalf of Campbell, Mr. F. A. Hosking entered a plea of guilty. He explained that defendant had been to a horse fair at Cambridge. He had had a few drinks during the day, some of them at Cambridge and others at Huntly. He was not a drinker and the liquor had affected him to a greater extent than he had expected. It was raining and visibility was bad when he ran off the road and struck the telegraph post. He was a married man, earning £4 a week. - _ Sergeant J. T. Cowan said there might be a further charge against Campbell arising out of the damage to the telegraph pole.