ASLEEP IN MOTOR-CAR
CHARGE OF INTOXICATION FINE OF £2O INFLICTED [by TELEGRAPH ntKSS association] WELLINGTON, Monday A clerk, William Joseph O'Brien, aged 25, was fined £2O by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Police Court to-day on a count of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car. His licence was endorsed and suspended until May 31 next, and local authorities were ordered to bo notified. Accused agreed to take out a prohibition order for a year. Accused was found asleep in a stationary car at lour o clock yesterday niorning. Counsel said that accused had attended a dance and had had liquor. He drove his friends home and, feeling tho effects of fatigue and drink, decided it would be unsafe to drive to the suburb where he lived.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22608, 22 December 1936, Page 13
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