LIQUOR AND MOTORING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 22

LIQUOR AND MOTORING

TWO MEN SENTENCED TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT [BY TELF.GBA.rH—OWN' COHRKSI'ONDKNT] ROTOKUA, Friday Carrying into effect warnings which he hatl given 011 previous occasions, Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., inflicted imprisonment when two motorists charged with intoxication while in charge of motor vehicles came before him in the Kotorna Police Court yesterday. Accused were EdwardDavis, a Maori, and Stanley Edgar Wilshire, a farmer. Both were sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment and Davis was also prohibited from holding a drivers' licence for five years. "I knew that the penalties are drastic," said the magistrate, "but I have had more of these cases before me during the past month or six weeks than in the previous 12 months, «nd they will have to be stopped."

FINE AND LICENCE CANCELLED yiIOSECUTION AT MORRItfSVILLE [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT*! MORRINSVILLE, Friday A motorist, William Fry, whose car had capsized on the HamiltonMorrinsville highway near the Motiimaoho township, was chnreecl in the Jlorrinsville Police Court this week, before Sir Stephen Allen and Mr. W. T. Osborne, J.P.'s, with being in charge of a car While in a state of intoxication. ■Accuseot was fined £ls and his driver's licence was cancelled. He was prohibited from holding a licence until Jtine 1, J 940.

:FARMER PINUD £2O. CANCELLATION OF LICENCE [UY TEr.KGRAI'H —OWN CORRESPONDENT] TE AROJEIA, Friday A findi of £2O and costs and the cancellation of his driving licence, until May 31, 1939, were the penalties imSoscd by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., on forman Ernest Lehmann, farmer (Mr. Foy), who was charged in the Magistrate's Court vesterday with being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car on the evening of March 11. A car driven b.v accused came into collision with another bet. iveen To A roll a and Morrinsville. Mr. Foy submitted that it was not a case in which a person was found obviously intoxicated. Accused had had no liquor, for seven hours before the accident.' which was caused to a great extent by the dazzling headlights of the approaching car. Accused was of an excitable nature, and his incoherence had possibly given the police a false impression. The examining doctor, he said, had stated that it was a borderline case. Tho magistrate pointed out that although accused might not have been intoxicated, he had been prevented from coping with an emergency by the effects of liquor.